Public holidays in Tuvalu
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The following are public holidays in Tuvalu.[1]
Date | English name | Tuvaluan name |
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January 1 | New Year's Day | Tausaga Fou |
Second Monday in March | Commonwealth Day | |
moveable in spring | Good Friday | |
moveable in spring | Holy Saturday | |
moveable in spring | Easter | |
moveable in spring | Easter Monday | |
Monday after second Sunday in May | Gospel Day | Te Aso o te Tala Lei |
Second Saturday in June (can vary if appointed differently) |
Queen's Official Birthday | |
First Monday in August | National Children's Day | Aso Tamaliki |
October 1 (public holiday continues October 2) | Tuvalu Day | |
Second Monday in November | Heir to the Throne's Birthday | |
December 25 | Christmas Day | Kilisimasi |
December 26 | Boxing Day |
Also, the regions observe the following regional holidays:[2]
Date | Atoll/Island | Name | Remarks |
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January 8 | Nanumea | Te Po o Tefolaha | The day Nanumea embraced Christianity brought by the London Missionary Society through Samoan pastors.[3] |
February 11 | Nukufetau | Te Aso o Tutasi | Honors the Tutasi school. |
February 16 | Nui | Bogin te Ieka (Day of the Flood) | Commemorates the Tsunami that struck the island on that day in 1882.[4][5] |
April 15 | Nanumaga | Aho o te Fakavae | |
April 23 | Funafuti | Funafuti Bomb Day | Commemorates the day during the Pacific War (World War II) when 680 people took refuge in the concrete walled, pandanus-thatched church from a Japanese bombing raid. Fortunately Corporal B. F. Ladd, an American soldier, persuaded them to get into dugouts, as a bomb struck the building shortly after.[6] |
moveable in May | Nukulaelae | Aso o te Tala Lei | Island-specific Gospel Day. |
September 17 | Niutao | Te Aso o te Setema | |
October 21 | Funafuti | Cyclone Day | Commemorates Cyclone Bebe's destruction of Funafuti in 1972.[7][8] |
November 25 | Vaitupu | Te Aso Fiafia (Happy Day) | Commemorates 25 November 1887 which was the date on which the final instalment of a debt of $13,000 was repaid to H. M. Ruge and Company.[9] |
References
- ^ PDF of the Public Holidays Act
- ^ Lalua, Silafaga (3 January 2007). "Island special public holidays". tuvalu-news.tv. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
- ^ Te Po o Tefolaha
- ^ Sotaga Pape, Hugh Laracy (ed.) (1983). "Chapter 10 – Nui". Tuvalu: A History. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific and Government of Tuvalu. pp. 74–75.
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(help) - ^ "Nowhere to run. Tuvaluans consider their future after Tropical Cyclone Pam". Report from International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
- ^ Melei Telavi, Tuvalu A History (1983) Ch. 18 War, U.S.P./Tuvalu, p. 140
- ^ Resture, Jane (17 May 2004). "Tuvalu and the hurricanes". Retrieved 23 April 2014.
- ^ "Funafuti natives celebrate Hurricane Bebe". tuvalu-news.tv. 23 October 2006. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
- ^ Kalaaki Laupepa, Hugh Laracy (ed.) (1983). "Chapter 11 – Vaitupu". Tuvalu: A History. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific and Government of Tuvalu. p. 82.
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