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 Atolls

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

• 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