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Close-up of the 1622 Map of the Pacific by Hessel Gerritsz showing among others Goede hoop Elt (Niuafo'ou, Cocos Eylandt and Verraders eylandt (Niuatoputapu). It is one of the earliest maps where those island are drawn. Cook's map of 1777. In the 15th century and again in the 17th, civil war erupted.
Civil war(15th century–1470) Tonga: Result of Civil conflict / status quo ante bellum. The Tongans were driven out of Wallis and Futuna. Tuʻi Tonga Kauʻulufonua I ceded temporal authority to his brother Moʻungāmotuʻa, replacing the Tuʻi Tonga dynasty with the Tu'i Ha'atakalaua dynasty. Unknown Civil war(17th century) Tonga
A map of Tonga Located in Oceania , Tonga is an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean , directly south of Samoa and about two-thirds of the way from Hawai'i to New Zealand. Its 171 islands, 45 of them inhabited, [ 1 ] are divided into three main groups – Vava'u, Ha'apai, and Tongatapu – and cover an 800-kilometre (500-mile; 430-nautical ...
Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900-1965 (ISBN 1-86940-205-7) Latukefu, S. (1974), Church and State in Tonga, ANU Press, Canberra; Campbell, Ian C; Island Kingdom: Tonga Ancient and Modern, 2001, ISBN 0-908812-96-5 "Brief history of the Kingdom of Tonga", on the website of the Tongan Parliament
The Royal Marines supported the 1st Marine Division's security and stabilisation mission at Camp Blue Diamond. Tonga first served with the 1st MEF on the Solomon Island during World War II. The Royal Tongan Marines returned from Iraq in December 2004. In December 2008, the Tonga Defence Services ended their mission in the Iraq War and returned ...
Bougainville Civil War (1988–1989) Bougainville Interim Government (BIG) Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) Supported by: Solomon Islands Fiji Papua New Guinea. Buka Liberation Front; Bougainville Resistance Force; Supported by: Australia *Bougainville Peace Agreement. Establishment of the Autonomous Bougainville Government
War in Afghanistan (2001 ... Pages in category "Wars involving Tonga" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Wikipedia® is a registered ...
Tonga is a sovereign island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. [1] Tonga comprises the Tonga Archipelago of 169 islands, 36 of them inhabited, stretching over a distance of about 800 kilometres (500 mi) in a north–south line.