Yato (Pukapuka)

Yato is one of three villages on the island of Wale in the Pukapuka atoll of the Cook Islands. Yato is the westernmost village and regulates the island of Motu Kotawa^[1] and the sand cay of Toka.^[2]

Map of Pukapuka Atoll

Niua School is located in the village.

References

1. "The motus of Pukapuka". Cook Islands News. 30 March 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
2. Robert Alan Borofsky (December 1982). Making History: the Creation of Traditional Knowledge on Pukapuka, a Polynesian Atoll. A dissertation submitted to the graduate division of the University of Hawaii in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology. University of Hawaii. p. 37.

10°51′12.56″S 165°50′49.96″W