Nuku (disambiguation)

Nuku (disambiguation)

Nuku is an element in a number of Polynesian placenames, as well as having a number of other uses. These include:

Placenames

  • Nuku — a historical province on the island of Hiva Oa
  • Nuku (Papua New Guinea) — a district capital in Papua New Guinea
  • Nuku Island — an island in Tonga's Vavaʻu group. Shipwrecked (TV series) was filmed here in 2000.
  • Nuku Hiva — largest of the Marquesas Islands
  • Nukunonu — one of the three atolls that make up Tokelau
  • Around Wallis Island
    • Nukufutu — a small islet rising several meters above the coral reef
    • Nukuloa — a long, low, palm-covered island along the reef, near Nukufutu
    • Nukulaelae (Wallis and Futuna) — a small islet off the northern coast of Nukuloa
    • Nukuteatea — a low reef island about 1 mi. southeast of Nukuloa
    • Nukutapu — an islet about 1 mi. south of Nukuteatea
    • Nukuhione — an islet at the north side of the break in the lagoon's reef along the east side of Wallis I.
    • Nukuhifala — a somewhat larger island than Nukuhione, directly across the passage through the reef
    • Nukuatea — a large islet inside the lagoon, south of Wallis I.
    • Nukuofo — a small rock off the southern tip of Wallis I.
    • Nukufetao — a small rock about 1 mi. out into the lagoon S. of Wallis I.
  • Nukufetau — one of the atolls of the island nation of Tuvalu
  • Nukulaelae — one of the atolls of the island nation of Tuvalu
  • Nukuʻalofa — capital of the Kingdom of Tonga

Fish

  • Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa, the Hawaiian language name for the Reef triggerfish as well as the Lagoon triggerfish. (The "nuku" here is not the same "nuku" as in the place names, the Hawaiian equivalent of that name being Nuʻu.)

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