Borrow Pit

Reclamation relocates hotel inland

  • 7 February 2016
Reclamation relocates hotel inland

Apparently the Vaiaku Lagi Hotel (the only hotel on Funafuti Atoll) has moved inland. It's not the building that's moved, but land reclamation has pushed the shoreline out.

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End of the Borrow Pits

  • 14 April 2015
End of the Borrow Pits

The “borrow pits” were created during World War Two when the American military “borrowed” earth from several sites around Fongafale Island to construct the Funafuti Atoll runway.  These are now filled...

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