Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1967Vol. 38, No. 10

For Tokelauans

p. 117 · Read in the full issue

Page 117117

Rare Trip Home

Fifty Tokelauans, and an American jcial studies teacher Tim Carroll, left ago Pago on September 3 in the iter-island vessel YF-340 on a 36- :>ur voyage to Fakaofo Atoll in the >kelaus.

For many of the Tokelauans it was e first visit to their homeland for any years. For others, it was the •st they had ever made because iey were born either on Swains land or Tutuila in American Samoa.

Tokelauans have long been em oyed as plantation workers on ivately-owned Swains Island, which 200 miles due north of Tutuila, nerican Samoa's main island.

Fakaofo is about 280 miles north ast of Tutuila.

The Tokelau Islands, with a popu ion of about 2,000, comprise three alls with a total land area of about ur square miles. The islands are ministered by New Zealand.

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