图瓦卢(TUVLU)英文介绍.pptVIP

The coutry which will soon disappear. TUVALU 图瓦卢 Tuvalu formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia. It comprises three reef islands and six true atolls spread out between the latitude of 5° to 10° south and longitude of 176° to 180°, west of the International Date Line. Its nearest neighbours are Kiribati（基里巴斯）, Nauru(瑙鲁), Samoa（美属萨摩亚及萨摩亚共和国） and Fiji（斐济）. Tuvalu has a population of 10,640.The total land area of the islands of Tuvalu is 26 square kilometres. The capital of Tuvalu is Funafuti(富纳富提) formerly adv. 以前；原来 Polynesian 波利尼西亚 midway adj.?居中的，中途的 comprise vt. 由……组成 reef n. 暗礁 atoll n. 环礁 latitude n. 纬度 longitude n. 经度 ? The History Of Tuvalu The first inhabitants of Tuvalu were Polynesians. The pattern of settlement that is believed to have occurred is that the Polynesians spread out from Samoa and Tonga（汤加） into the Tuvaluan atolls. In 1568, a Spanish navigator was the first European to sail through the archipelago, sighting the island of Nui during his expedition in search of Terra Australis. In 1819 the island of Funafuti was named Ellice‘s Island; the name Ellice was applied to all nine islands after the work of English hydrographer Alexander George Findlay. The Ellice Islands were administered as British protectorate（受保护国） by a Resident Commissioner（专员） from 1892 to 1916 as part of the British Western Pacific Territories (英国西太平洋领地), and then as part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony from 1916 to 1974. Tuvalu became fully independent on 1 October 1978. On 5 September 2000 Tuvalu became the 189th member of the United Nations. inhabitant n. 居民，住户 expedition n. 考察 occurre v. 发生 hydrographer n. 水文学家 navigator n. 航海家 administered 被管理 archipelago n. 群岛 colony n. 殖民地，聚居地 Challenges Tuvalu faces as a result of climate change As low-l