Scholars believe that the Polynesians spread out from Samoa and Tonga into the Tuvaluan atolls, which then served as a stepping stone for further migration into the Polynesian outliers in Melanesia and Micronesia. Polynesian navigation skills enabled them to make elaborately planned journeys in either double-hulled sailing canoes or outrigger canoes. Long before European contact with the Pacific islands, Polynesians frequently voyaged by canoe between the islands. The first inhabitants of Tuvalu were Polynesians, according to well-established theories regarding a migration of Polynesians into the Pacific that began about three thousand years ago. The total land area of the islands of Tuvalu is 26 square kilometres (10 sq mi). Tuvalu has a population of 10,507 (2017 census). They lie west of the International Date Line. They are spread out between the latitude of 5° and 10° south and between the longitude of 176° and 180°. Tuvalu is composed of three reef islands and six atolls. They lie east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands (which belong to the Solomon Islands), northeast of Vanuatu, southeast of Nauru, south of Kiribati, west of Tokelau, northwest of Samoa and Wallis and Futuna, and north of Fiji. Its islands are situated about midway between Hawaii and Australia. Tuvalu ( / ˈ t uː v ə l uː/ TOO-və-loo or / t uː ˈ v ɑː l uː/ ( listen) too- VAH-loo formerly known as the Ellice Islands) is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean.
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