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Nanumanga or Nanumaga is a reef island and a district of the Oceanian island nation of Tuvalu. It has a surface area of about 3 km² with a population of almost 600. ==History== On 9 May 1824 a French government expedition under Captain Louis Isidore Duperrey of the ship ''La Coquille'' sighted Nanumaga.〔Keith S. Chambers & Doug Munro, ''The Mystery of Gran Cocal: European Discovery and Mis-Discovery in Tuvalu'', 89(2) (1980) The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 167–198〕 Louis Becke, who later became a writer, became the resident trader for the Liverpool firm of John S. de Wolf and Co. on Nanumaga from about April 1880 until the trading-station was destroyed later that year in a cyclone.〔'Louis Beck, Adventurer and Writer', Chapter 8, ''Rascals in Paradise'', James A. Michener and Arthur Grove Day, Secker and Warburg (1957)〕 Becke later wrote ''The Rangers of the Tia Kau''〔http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/22486/〕 that describes a shark attack at the Tia Kau reef between Nanumea and Nanumaga. The population of Nanumaga from 1860–1900 is estimated to be between 300〔Richard Bedford, Barrie Macdonald & Doug Monro, Population Estimates for Kiribati and Tuvalu (1980) 89(1) J. of the Polynesian Society 199〕 to 335 people.〔W.F. Newton, The Early Population of the Ellice Islands, 76(2) (1967) The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 197–204.〕 Nanumaga Post Office opened around 1925. In 1986 it became a centre of debate when Pacific archaeologists discovered the submerged Caves of Nanumanga, and found what they argued was the remains of fire created by pre-historic inhabitants. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nanumanga」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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