Indonesian Tidore Root of Nuku Fetau Islands of Tuvalu

BCFOS -- According to historical records of Indonesian Tidore Sultanate, Nuku Sultan (Prince Nuku) visited his vast land of authority in Pacific Islands and gave the name of the islands which he mastered, from Micronesia to Melanesia and the Solomon Islands.

The names of the islands are still using his name to this day is Nuku Nuku hyphae, Nuku Oro, Nuku Maboro, Nuku Nau, Nuku Lae-lae, and Nuku Nuku Nono Fetau.

Other areas included in the power of Tidore is Haiti and the Archipelago Nuku Lae-lae (or Nukulaelae in Tivalu), Nuku Fetau (or Nukufetau in Tivalu), and Nuku Nuku Nono Wange.Nukufetau is an atoll that is part of the nation of Tuvalu. The atoll was claimed by the US under the Guano Islands Act some time in the 19th century.

and was ceded in a treaty of friendship concluded in 1979 and coming into force in 1983. It has a population of 536 who live on Savave islet (2012 census).

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