Solar panels installed in 2008 on the roof of the stadium in the Tuvalu capital of Funafuti currently generate five percent of the residents' electrical needs. |
Starting yesterday, Tuvalu inaugurated a 500 kW solar PV power plant on the atoll of Funafuti. |
From the air the tiny islets of Funafuti atoll appear as a broken pearl necklace scattered on the blue throat of the tropical sea. |
Then I bade good-bye to the natives, who started off for Funafuti with many expressions of goodwill to their fellow-mutineer. |
On 5 February, King recommended that Funafuti Atoll in the Ellice Islands be made an advance base to cover Fiji and Samoa. |
According to a story recorded by the missionary George Turner, Funafuti was first inhabited by the porcupine fish whose progeny became men and women. |