Funafuti

[ foo-nuh-foo-tee ]

noun

1. a village in and the capital of Tuvalu.

Example Sentences

On an island in the Southern Sea, Funafuti, a deep boring has been made 1,114 ft. deep.

From Project Gutenberg

A year had come and gone, and the Venus again lay at anchor in the broad lagoon of Funafuti.

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The Funafuti borings show almost beyond doubt that Polynesia is an area of comparatively recent subsidence.

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It will thus be seen that the verdict of Funafuti is clearly and unmistakeably in favour of Darwin's theory.

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Then I bade good-bye to the natives, who started off for Funafuti with many expressions of goodwill to their fellow-mutineer.

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