Alofi Island

{{Short description|Island in Wallis and Futuna}}

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File:Futuna alofi.jpgAlofi is an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the French overseas collectivity (collectivité d'outre-mer, or COM) of Wallis and Futuna. Data shows that Alofi was inhabited until 1840.{{Cite book |last=USA |first=IBP |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WAOuDwAAQBAJ&q=Kolofau+-Wikipedia&pg=PA36 |title=Wallis & Futuna Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information |date=August 2013 |isbn=978-1-4387-6913-4 |pages=36 |language=en}} The highest point on the island is Kolofau. The 3,500 ha island is separated from the larger neighbouring island of Futuna by a 1.7 km channel. Alofi has been recognised as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International for its red-footed booby colony and the vulnerable shy ground dove, as well as for various restricted-range bird species (including crimson-crowned fruit doves, blue-crowned lorikeets, Polynesian wattled honeyeaters, Polynesian trillers, Fiji shrikebills and Polynesian starlings).{{cite web |url=http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/alofi-iba-wallis-and-futuna-islands-(to-france) |title=Alofi |author= |date=2021 |website=BirdLife Data Zone |publisher=BirdLife International |access-date=23 January 2021 |archive-date=3 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203234610/http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/alofi-iba-wallis-and-futuna-islands-(to-france) |url-status=live }}