Talk:Mont Puke

Does this mount Singavi even really exist ? Name and altitude seem dubious !
On last 25th october, User:Poulpy made an interesting discovery after checking, on the French national geographical institute website (IGN's geoportail), the claim of "Mont Singavi" being the highest peak of Futuna island :
 * The highest peak on official french map is Mont Puke (Puke Mount) with 522 meters (~ 1712 feet) (I fetched this Link to the IGN map, a well-recognized reference for french territories).
 * There's no direct trace of any Singavi Mount on official french map (especially at the location linked in the current article), though the term Singave may refer to Sigave a realm on Futuna Island. Doing further searches I found :
 * The map found on the Sigave article refers to a "Mount Puke 2500" (2500 feet ? that would be roughly the same altitude ~765m).
 * However according to "Ko le fonu tu'a limulimua", a book of local oral tradition of Futuna, p336-338, the Mount Puke is not even in the Sigave Realm : it was won by the neighboring Alo Realm in a fishery and climber contest. The book author states that the mount is still the boundary between the two realms.

What is the current source of data for this article ? Is it CIA Factbook as thought by Poulpy ( CIA website indeed says highest point: Mont Singavi (on Futuna) 765 m) ?

With all the evidences gathered I'd suggest to rename the article to "Mont Puke" and adjust the altitude data. What do you think ?

I'm not an inhabitant of Futuna, so I may be wrong (especially at 4am), so any helpful comment is welcome :)

--FoeNyx (talk) 03:05, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
 * It seems that the german article and polish article linked to this one, both give Mont Puke as the name of the highest Futuna peak and 524m as its altitude (thx User:Rhadamante) --FoeNyx (talk) 04:08, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
 * User:Scheridon added another source (peakbagger.com) and did the renaming. --FoeNyx (talk) 15:06, 16 January 2011 (UTC)