Kwakéa (or Pakea, or Qakea [k͡pʷakea]) is an islet located east of Vanua Lava in the Banks Islands, Vanuatu.

[1] The spellings Kwakéa (or Kwakea) and Pakea represent two different attempts at transcribing the form [k͡pʷakea], which is the island's name in the Mota language.

The same island is known under slightly different names in the vernacular languages of the region: Qakē ([k͡pʷaˈkɪ]) in Vurës;[2] Qeke ([k͡pʷɛˈkɛ]) in Mwesen; Aqke ([ak͡pʷˈkɛ]) in Mwotlap.

In addition, the anthropologist Robert Codrington spoke of an earlier migration of Polynesians from Tonga sometime during the first half of the 19th century, around 50 years before he wrote his work on Melanesian languages in 1885.

[4] In the mid-1890s, English settlers Frank and Alice Whitford purchased the island from the native title owners, who were from Mota.