It is one of the nine districts (atolls) of Tuvalu, and one of the three who consist of only one island.
Geography
There are two lakes (ponds or lagunes). The biggest has three islands and a dam. There are three wells, pits, deepths or springs (?). The only village is Tuapa, it has the neighbourhood of Angafoulua. There is a Maneapa (community hall), a church, a post office, and a well, pit, deepth or spring (one of the three). On a half mile is the graveyard, and on a quart of a mile the hospital. The hospital and the village are in the west (village south, hospital north) of the island and the graveyard in the southmiddle of the isle. The island is about a horizontal oval which has a length of about one mile. There is a lot of dry vegetation and a few of little mangroveforests. A reef is around the whole island.
Transportation
There is a network of paved and/ or unpaved ways. There are no trains or airports.
Niutao is roughly rectangular in shape and has a tiny land-locked lagoon in the middle.
He, too, was accepted at Niutao where he built a village named Savaea, a little to the north of Mulitefao.
When turtles were caught at sea or on the steep sandy beaches their heads were ceremonially presented to the chiefs, who sat at the southern end of the large fale-kaupule or meeting house.
According to tradition the early inhabitants of Niutao enjoyed a pleasant, easy life, undisturbed by strife, although this did not last indefinitely.
The people had already learned something of this new religion from Mose a man from Vaitupu, but it was only in 1870 with the arrival of missionaries that they became seriously interested in it.
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