URI(s)

• http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035231

Codes

• potv---

Variants

• État des Tuvalu
• Tʼoobááloo
• Touvalou
• Tsubaru
• Tubalu
• Tubaru
• Tubhalu
• Tufalu
• Tuvalmudin Orn
• Tuvalo
• Tuvaluäns
• Túvalúeyjar
• Tuvaru
• Tuwalu
• Tuwaluu
• Twfalw
• Τουβαλού
• Тувалу
• Тувалмудин Орн
• טובאלו
• ツバル
• 圖瓦盧
• 투발루

Identifies LC/NAF RWO

• http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n81035231

Identifies RWO

• http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tuvalu
• http://www.viaf.org/viaf/143074390
• http://isni.org/isni/0000000121822167
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/things/d7734997-cb21-4030-ae2a-c96c187be435#id
• http://musicbrainz.org/area/529117db-25de-3d09-9722-b54937a17590#_
• http://sws.geonames.org/2110297/
• http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/1000236-place

• Activity Start

  1978-10-01

• Descriptor

  Countries (sovereign states) (aat)

• Descriptor

  Republics

• Descriptor

  Nations (aat)

• Descriptor

  Island nations (aat)

• Descriptor

  Nation (thesoz)

• Descriptor

  Nation-state

• Descriptor

  State (eurovocen)

• Descriptor

  State (stw)

• Descriptor

  Developing island countries

• Descriptor

  Country

• Descriptor

  Independent political entity

• Associated Locale

  Polynesia

• Associated Locale

  Oceania

Has Demonym

• Tuvaluans

Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

• Tuvalu
• http://viaf.org/en/viaf/LC%7Cn%20%2081035231
• http://eurovoc.europa.eu/4583
• http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8025
• http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/36295
• http://id.cabi.org/cabt/121006
• http://id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C631
• http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/1000236
• http://zbw.eu/stw/descriptor/17950-6
• http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept878
• http://id.ndl.go.jp/auth/ndlna/00576072
• http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p109216

Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

• Tuvalu
• Tuvalu
• Tuvalu
• Tuvalu Label from public data source Wikidata

Earlier Established Forms

• Ellice Islands (Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony)
• Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony

Sources

• found: Yrbk. of the Commonwealth, 1977 (info. ref.)p. 572 (On October 1975 the Ellice Islands were established as a separate dependency called Tuvalu, ending the joint administration [with the Gilbert Islands] which began in 1892)
• found: Phone call to BGN, 4/25/70(Tuvalu, a independent political entity at 8⁰0ʹS 178⁰0ʹE)
• found: The statesman's year-book, 1995-1996:p. 1293 (Tuvalu; formerly the Ellice Islands in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands; separated from the Gilbert Islands in Oct. 1975; independence on 1 Oct. 1978)
• found: Wikipedia, October 31, 2014(Tuvalu, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean; independence from the United Kingdom 1 October 1978) Belarusian page (Тувалу = Tuvalu) Bikol Central page (Tubalu) Welsh page (Twfalw) Navajo page (Tʼoobááloo) Greek page (Τουβαλού = Touvalou) Esperanto page (Tuvalo) French page (Tuvalu; État des Tuvalu) Scottish Gaelic page (Tubhalu) Kalmyk page (Тувалмудин Орн = Tuvalmudin Orn) Korean page (투발루 = T'ubalu) Icelandic page (Túvalúeyjar) Hebrew page (טובאלו = Tuvalu) Haitian page (Touvalou) Nauruan page (Tubaru) Japanese page (ツバル = Tsubaru) Norfuk/Pitkern page (Tuwaluu) Tahitian page (Tuvaru) Quechua page (Tuwalu) Uyghur page (Tuwalu [in roman]) Volapük page (Tuvaluäns) Yoruba page (Tufalu) Chinese page (圖瓦盧 = Tuwalu)

Editorial Notes

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Instance Of

• MADS/RDF Geographic
• MADS/RDF Authority
• SKOS Concept

Scheme Membership(s)

• Library of Congress Name Authority File

Collection Membership(s)

• Names Collection - Authorized Headings
• LC Names Collection - General Collection

Change Notes

• 1981-06-18: new
• 2025-08-04: revised

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