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HOWS DX?  FW WALLIS AND FUTUNA ISLANDS  THE TERRITORY OF THE WALLIS AND
FUTUNA ISLANDS, A FRENCH OVERSEAS COLLECTIVITY, IS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC
OCEAN, LOCATED NORTHEAST OF FIJI 3D2 AND WEST OF SAMOA 5W.  THERE ARE THREE
VOLCANIC TROPICAL ISLANDS WALLIS, FUTUNA, AND ALOFI ALONG WITH MULTIPLE
TINY ISLETS.  WHEN THE EUROPEANS FIRST CAME TO FUTUNA IN THE EARLY 17TH
CENTURY, THEY NAMED THE ISLANDS HOORNSE EYLANDEN AFTER THE DUTCH TOWN OF
HOORNE, WHICH WAS LATER TRANSLATED INTO FRENCH AS THE ISLES DE HORNE.
WALLIS WAS NAMED AFTER BRITISH EXPLORER SAMUEL WALLIS.  THE FIRST EUROPEAN
SETTLERS TO THE ISLANDS WERE FRENCH MISSIONARIES INTRODUCING CATHOLICISM IN
1837.  IN 1887, THE KINGS AND QUEEN OF THE ISLANDS SIGNED A TREATY WITH THE
FRENCH, MAKING THE ISLAND A PROTECTORATE UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF FRENCH
TERRITORY NEW CALEDONIA.  BY 1917, THE ISLAND BECAME THE COLONY OF WALLIS
AND FUTUNA.  CITIZENS OF THE ISLANDS VOTED TO BECOME AN OVERSEAS TERRITORY,
EFFECTIVE IN 1961, AND IT BECAME A COLLECTIVITY IN 2003.  DXCC HISTORY OF
WALLIS AND FUTUNA  WALLIS AND FUTUNA WERE NOT ON THE ORIGINAL POST WORLD
WAR II DXCC LIST, DATED NOVEMBER 15, 1945.  IN THE JUNE 1955 ISSUE OF QST
MAGAZINE P.  75, THERE WAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ADDITION OF FW WALLIS AND
FUTUNA TO THE DXCC LIST, EFFECTIVE WITH ANY CONTACTS MADE ON OR AFTER
NOVEMBER 15, 1945.  THOSE CREDITS COULD BE MADE STARTING AUGUST 1, 1955.
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