Tematagi

In 1857, the captain of the Julia, coasting along Tematagi Atoll saw armed natives follow the course of his schooner... "clad in many-coloured stuffs".

In 1966, Catholic missionary Father Victor Valleys mentioned in a letter to his bishop that he had planted 135,000 coconut trees on the islands.

Teams of workers from neighboring atolls spent three or four months a year at Tematagi harvesting copra.

The legal status of the population is not clear since the atoll remains the property of SCI, under the guise of a Catholic Mission.

This means that the correct direction of Muslim prayer (qibla) varies widely between Tematagi and its neighboring islands.

Location of Tematagi Atoll
This map shows the antipodes of each point on the Earth 's surface; the points where the blue and yellow overlap are land antipodes (most land has its antipodes in the ocean). Both Mecca and Tematagi are to the upper left of the center of the map.