Tokelau Islands
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Tokelau: Originally settled by Polynesian emigrants from surrounding island groups, the Tokelau Islands were made a British protectorate in 1889.
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"That is what the people of the Tokelau Islands call O le fati le galu—the last great wave, that gathering itself together far out on the ocean, rushes to the reef, and curling high up as the mast of a ship, falls and shakes the land from one side to the other."
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No wonder that the Samoans and natives of the Tokelau Islands term the leather-jacket isumu moana—the sea-rat.
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"I was thinking of sailing on a cruise among the Tokelau Islands in a day or two."
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Background: Originally settled by Polynesian emigrants from surrounding island groups, the Tokelau Islands were made a British protectorate in 1889.
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