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The island is famous to be the place (where the cathedral of Poi now stands) where Piere Chanel was martyred to death in 1841 becoming Polynesia's one and only catholic saint.

The languages spoken are Futunan and French .

Two kings, elected with a lot of envy from the local nobility every few years, rule the population under the benevolent eye of the French.