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Fatu Huku is a dry island compared with most high islands in
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The island is essentially a huge rock, looming steep-sided out of the ocean and rising to a flattened plateau with a maximum elevation of 361 metres (1,184 ft). Fatu Huku is the youngest of the volcanic
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Fatu Huku was likely only ever inhabited in legend. Unreliability of water sources and lack of land suitable for agriculture were factors preventing any habitation. Fishermen occasionally visited the island. The story of the
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is found at the higher elevations of Fatu Huku. The island is also surrounded by a roughly triangular-shaped
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366:Moho Tani
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