Tafahi

Tafahi, formerly known as Cocos Eylant ( " Cocos Island " ) or referred Boscawen Island, is a small island of volcanic origin, which belongs to the Kingdom of Tonga. The island is 1.2 km long, 2.8 km wide and has an area of ​​3.4 km ². At the 2006 census the island had 69 inhabitants. There is a state primary school. The island was first mentioned in a map of Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire in 1616.

The Swiss author Alex Capus provides in traveling in the light of the stars - based on analyzes of Walter Hurni - novelistic, the thesis Tafahi was the real Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson himself had salvaged the 1821 stolen legendary church treasures of Lima and was so untold wealth reaches. Originally, the treasure was suspected on the same Cocos Island off the coast of Panama.