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Wallis & Fortuna Islands

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Wallis and Futuna [officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands], is a Polynesian French island territory (but not part of, or even contiguous with, French Polynesia) in the South Pacific between Fiji and Samoa. It is made up of three main volcanic tropical islands and a number of tiny islets. The territory is split into two island groups lying about 260 km apart: Wallis Islands (Uvea), in the north and Hoorn Islands (Futuna Islands), in the south. Since 2003 Wallis and Futuna has been a French overseas collectivity (collectivit� d'outre-mer). The islands have a hot, rainy season from November to April and a cool, dry season from May to October. The rains accumulate 2,500 to 3,000 millimetres (98�118 in) each year. The average humidity is 80% and the temperature 26.6 �C (79.9 �F).

Only five percent of the islands' land area is arable land; permanent crops cover another 20%. Deforestation (only small portions of the original forests remain), largely as a result of the continued use of wood as the main fuel source, is a serious problem; as a consequence of cutting down the forests, the mountainous terrain of Futuna is particularly prone to erosion. There are no permanent settlements on Alofi because of the lack of natural fresh water resources.

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