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The Tongan castaways were a group of six Tongan teenage boys who shipwrecked on the uninhabited island of ʻAta in 1965 and lived there for 15 months until their rescue. The boys ran away from their boarding school on the island of Tongatapu, stealing a boat in their escape. After a storm wrecked the boat, they drifted to the abandoned, remote ...
Discovering six Tongan youths that had been presumed dead Australian fisherman and yachtsman (1931–2021) Peter Raymond Warner (22 February 1931 [ 1 ] – 13 April 2021) was an Australian seafarer and ship's captain who discovered six Tongan youths marooned on a Pacific island in 1966, more than a year after they had been presumed dead .
ʻAta is a depopulated island in the far southern end of the Tonga archipelago, situated approximately 160 kilometres (99 mi) south-southwest of Tongatapu.. It is distinct from ʻAtā, an uninhabited, low coral island in the string of small atolls along the Piha passage along the north side of Tongatapu.
Travelers go through a TSA Pre checkpoint at the Miami International Airport as some of the year's busiest travel days occur during the holiday season on December 20, 2024 in Miami, Florida.
The Tongan castaways, a group of teenage boys who ran away from school in 1965 and ended up marooned on an island in the Pacific for 15 months. Their story has been held as a parallel with the fictional boy castaways in the novel Lord of the Flies.
Six Americans who had been detained in Venezuela in recent months were freed by the government of President Nicolás Maduro after he met Friday with a senior Trump administration official.
Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban-American boy whose shipwreck at age 5 sparked an international custody battle between his father and their Florida relatives, is about to become a dad himself. Gonzalez ...
List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1965 Ship State Description Nahichevan Soviet Union The 125-foot (38.1 m) side trawler was lost in the Bering Sea between the Pribilof Islands and Saint Matthew Island approximately 80 nautical miles (150 km; 92 mi) northwest of Saint Paul Island during a severe storm.