Vatoa

Vatoa (pronounced [βaˈtoa]) (known as Turtle Island after Cook's visit) is an outlier of Fiji's Lau Group.

The next day, a Sunday, the Master and some of Cook's crew went ashore: "...thinking to speak with the people not more than 20 in number who were Arm'd with Clubs and Spears, but the moment he set foot on Shore they retired, he left ashore some Medals, Nails and a Knife ..... Near the Reef were seen several Turtle which occasioned my giving that name to the Isle."

The island has an area of 4.45 square kilometres (445.00 hectares; 1,099.62 acres) and rises to more than 50 metres (160 feet) above sea level.

He once served as Director of Immigration and Deputy Commander of the Republic of Fiji Navy.

Some of the wrecks are listed below: The schooner, Lyman D. Foster, bound for Suva carrying timber, was dismasted in a hurricane, off Vatoa in April 1913.