Tobi (island)

Tobi, also called Hatohobei or Kodgubi, is a small remote island in the western Pacific. The island with a land area of 0.6 km ² is abundantly covered with coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) and surrounded by a dense coral reef.

Together with the 75 km eastern Helen Reef, a large uninhabited atoll, Tobi is the Palauan government Hatohobei whose eponymous main town located on the southwest coast of the island of Tobi. The state Hatohobei is the southernmost administrative area of the island Republic of Palau, the village Hatohobei on Tobi therefore Palau's southernmost settlement.

History

Despite its remoteness Tobi counted from 1899 until the First World War to the colony of German New Guinea.