Atafu Atoll

Atafu is the smallest of the Tokelau atolls, its low coral islets enclosing a lagoon in the central Pacific. Local tradition tells of an earlier population driven away by a war party from Fakaofo. In 1765 John Byron reached Atafu and found no inhabitants; when Edward Edwards visited in 1791, he was searching the Pacific for the mutineers of the Bounty.