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 left:ISS002-E-6431 Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov Vaitupu This atoll, it looks a little like the sole of a shoe, has a land area of 5,63 km sq, and is therefor the largest of Tuvalu's atolls. |
| Flora of Vaitupu (incomplete) (green = pctures) Asplenium nidus, Barringtonia asiatica, Calophyllum inophyllum, Cocos nucifera, Cordia subcordata, Guettarda speciosa, Heliotropium foertherianum, Hernandia nymphaeifolia, Hibiscus tiliaceus, Lepturus repens, Lumnitzera littoralis, Microsorum grossum, Neisosperma oppositifolia, Nephrolepis acutifolia, Pandanus tectorius, Pemphis acidula, Pisonia grandis, Pteris tripartita, Rhizophora stylosa, Scaevola taccada, Thespesia populnea |
| References: - Donald Gilbert Kennedy: 'Field Notes on the Culture of Vaitupu, Ellice Islands' - K. A. Rogers: 'Occurence of phosphate rock and associated soils in Tuvalu, Central Pacific' |