Fineveke

Fineveke
Village
Fineveke
Location in Wallis Island
Coordinates: 13°19′38″S 176°13′18″W / 13.32722°S 176.22167°W / -13.32722; -176.22167Coordinates: 13°19′38″S 176°13′18″W / 13.32722°S 176.22167°W / -13.32722; -176.22167
Country  France
Territory  Wallis and Futuna
Island Wallis
Chiefdom Uvea
District Mua
Time zone UTC+12

Fineveke is a village in Wallis and Futuna. It is located in Mua District on the southwest coast of Wallis Island, just northwest of Halalo. Lake Lanutavake lies just to the northeast.[1]

Overview

It hosts a small private marina,[2] visible on google maps with 14 boats harbored.[1] The "chief of the rails" of Wallis lived in Fineveke.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Google Maps (Map). Google. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  2. ↑ Société des Océanistes (2006). Journal de la Société des Océanistes. Musée de l'homme. p. 113. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  3. ↑ Burrows, Edwin Grant; Museum, Bernice Pauahi Bishop (1937). Ethnology of Uvea (Wallis island). Bernice P. Bishop Museum. p. 168. Retrieved 10 June 2011.


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