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Pukapuka
A remote atoll few ships visited before 1857.
- Population
- 456 (2021)
- Mendaña
- 1595
Then
- 1595
Álvaro de Mendaña sights it on St. Bernard's day.
- 1857
Missionary teachers land. Few ships came before then.
- 1924
American writer Robert Dean Frisbie settles here.
Now
About 456 people live on the atoll.