Nukulaelae
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left:ISS002-E-9884 Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov Nukulaelae This atoll consists among others of the islets Motuloa in the northeast, Fangawa in the west, Fenualanga in the south and Motutoriki in the east. Together all islets average a land area of only 1,82 km sq. |
| Flora of Nukulaelae (incomplete) (green = pictures) Asplenium nidus, Cocos nucifera, Guettarda speciosa, Heliotropium foertherianum, Pandanus tectorius, Pisonia grandis, Scaevola taccada |
| References: - K. A. Rogers: 'Occurence of phosphate rock and associated soils in Tuvalu, Central Pacific' |