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Atafu Atoll reunion

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Atafu Atoll reunion

In February 1980, 19 families numbering 106 people, originally from Atafu Atoll, spent several days together at a Porirua youth camp. On Atafu Atoll they had formed an extended family. While most parents went to work each day during the reunion, the children stayed behind at the camp, attending school and enjoying traditional activities such as singing and drumming.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1980/0599/15A-F

by Ian Mackley

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Carl Walrond, Tokelauans – Culture and custom, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/732/atafu-atoll-reunion (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 March 2015.