TUVALUBy Alan A. Demetriou

SLIDE 1:BRIEF INTRO ABOUT THE COUNTRY.

Location: Pacific Ocean, North East of Australia

10,000 inhabitants, with 8km of roads, and only 1 hospital

Former British colony until 1978

The Tuvaluan language and English are the national languages

SLIDE 2: LANDSCAPE /ENVIRONMENT Tuvalu is made out of three reef islands and six

true atolls. An Atoll is an island made of coral

Its small, scattered group of atolls have poor soil and a total land area of only about 26 square kilometres (10 square miles) making it the fourth smallest country in the world

Tuvalu is currently sinking due to climate change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn0pbO6U7Xs

TUVALU ATOLLS

TUVALU’S ISLANDS

SLIDE 3: TRADITIONS / CULTURE

Traditional house are built using plants and trees

The traditional music of Tuvalu consists of a number of dances, including fatele, fakanau and fakaseasea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzQdk4nRbTY

They use shells to build necklaces

SLIDE 4: FOOD The traditional foods eaten in Tuvalu are pulaka, 

taro, bananas, breadfruit and coconut. They also eat a lot of fish Breadfruit Taro