a look at niua

Here's the island from above (some five miles long)

A closer view of the village of Falehau where I will be staying, note the wharf projecting into the lagoon:

 

 

Here's the house where I will be staying:

...and here is Niua's location on the edge of the Australian Plate - right on the subduction zone with the Pacific Plate. = the Tonga Trench.....that chain of dots are volcanoes - looks like mega tectonic activity is par for the course here....