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Wallis Island
Wallis Island, called Uvea by its inhabitants, is the main island of the French overseas collectivity of Wallis and Futuna in the south-west Pacific. Surrounded by a lagoon and small islets, it holds the territory's capital, Mata-Utu. Settled by Polynesians, it was conquered by Tonga in the 15th century and is named after the British navigator Samuel Wallis, who sighted it in 1767.
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