Tokelau, however, has the smallest GDP in the world: about $1.2 million a year. Through Freedom Registry, Zuurbier didn’t just bring hard cash to the people of Tokelau, he brought connectivity.

At the stroke of midnight on Dec. 29, time in Samoa and Tokelau will leap forward to Dec. 31 -- New Year's Eve. For Samoa's 186,000 citizens, and the 1,500 in Tokelau, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, will ...

The Tokelau islands are the first nation to be run completely on solar power, they announced on November 5. Tokelau is a New Zealand territory made up of three coral atolls — coral reef based ...

The Tokelau project started with a phone call during lockdown five years ago. Conservation International had been successful ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 30 October 2023 Three far-flung coral atolls - Atafu, Nukunonu and Fakaofo - make up Tokelau, a dependent territory of New Zealand in ...

Tokelau, a necklace of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last place on Earth to be connected to the telephone—only in 1997.

Tokelau's entire population would fit inside four jumbo jets, and its per-capita income is around $1,000 per year. So its greenhouse gas output is an infinitesimal fraction of the global total.

Tokelau, a collection of three atolls that belongs to New Zealand, will get almost all of its electricity from solar power when a solar system goes live this September.

Tokelau consists of three small atolls, and is a dependent territory of New Zealand It has a population of around 1,500 people The newspaper hopes to keep people informed about climate change ...

In 1863, Peruvian slave traders arrived in Tokelau. Half the islands’ population were soon gone: abducted, or dead from the ...

Tokelau is governed by the Taupulega (village elders) of the three atolls. "In Nukunonu, there are more than 30 members of Taupulega and they are called matai," Pasilio explains.

Tokelau becomes part of New Zealand on 1 January 1949. 1980 - Treaty of Tokehega between New Zealand and the US settles disputed claims and delineates the maritime boundary between Tokelau and ...