Tokelau Islands

Tokelau:   Originally settled by Polynesian emigrants from surrounding   island groups, the Tokelau Islands were made a British protectorate   in 1889.

"That is what the people of the Tokelau Islands call O le fati le galu—the last great wave, that gathering itself together far out on the ocean, rushes to the reef, and curling high up as the mast of a ship, falls and shakes the land from one side to the other."

No wonder that the Samoans and natives of the Tokelau Islands term the leather-jacket isumu moana—the sea-rat.

"I was thinking of sailing on a cruise among the Tokelau Islands in a day or two."

Background: Originally settled by Polynesian emigrants from surrounding island groups, the Tokelau Islands were made a British protectorate in 1889.