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Tuvalu
| Location |
S Pacific Ocean, E of New Guinea, N of Fiji |
| Latitude and longitude |
8 00 S, 178 00 E |
| Sovereignty |
Independent |
| United Nations member? |
Yes |
| Political status notes |
Formerly known as the Ellice Islands |
| Population |
12,177 |
| Census notes |
est. 2008 |
| Land area in square kilometers |
26 |
| Capital |
Funafuti |
Fundamental legal document(s) online
|
| Constitution
of Tuvalu, from the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute
at the University of the South Pacific School of Law |
Other legal documents online
|
|
Tuvalu
Law, a collection of statutes, laws, judicial decisions and
other materials from the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute at
the University of the South Pacific School of Law |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| About
Tuvalu, from Tuvalu Online |
| Country
profile: Tuvalu, from the BBC News |
| Finding
Tuvalu, from David Stanley’s South Pacific Organizer |
| Fishery
Country Profile—Tuvalu, from the Food and Agriculture
Organization |
| Independent
States in the World, Office of the Geographer and Global Issues,
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State,
Washington, D.C. |
| Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Pacific
Island Populations 2011 (Microsoft Excel spreadsheet 80K) |
| Tuvalu,
map and basic demographic and economic data from the South Pacific
Island Web Atlas, provided by the GIS Unit of the University of the
South Pacific |
| Tuvalu,
from the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
| Tuvalu,
from Radio Australia’s Charting the Pacific |
| Tuvalu,
from Radio Australia’s Time to Talk |
| Tuvalu,
Background Notes, from the U.S. Department of State (2003) |
| United Kingdom, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Country
Profile: Tuvalu |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
Selected articles on law and political status
|
| Land
Tenure System: An Obstacle to Economic Development in Tuvalu, by
Loia M. Tausi, working draft presented to the FAO/USP/RICS Foundation South
Pacific Land Tenure Conflict Symposium at the University of the
South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, April 10 -12, 2002 (PDF 156K) |
| When Unwritten Customary Authority Overrides the Legal Effect of Constitutional Rights: A Critical Review of the Tuvaluan Decision in
Mase Teonea V. Pule O Kaupule & Another,
by Dejo Olowu, from volume 9 of the Journal of South Pacific Law (2005) |
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