Nukunonu Atoll

Nukunonu is a low coral atoll in Tokelau, its islets enclosing a lagoon in the South Pacific. Polynesian communities maintained ties between the Tokelau atolls and neighboring Samoa by canoe. In 1791 HMS Pandora, searching for the Bounty mutineers, passed Nukunonu; its captain Edward Edwards named it Duke of Clarence’s Island.