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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 .
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 .
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.
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.
Lord of the Flies has been contrasted with the Tongan castaways incident from 1965, when a group of schoolboys on a fishing boat from Tonga were marooned on an uninhabited island and considered dead by their relatives. The group not only managed to survive for over 15 months but "had set up a small commune with food garden, hollowed-out tree ...
1965 Sank with the loss of 65 men. [11]} John Elder: 1892 Sank near Punta Carranza. [12] Kate Kellok [13] 1878 Logos: 1988 A missionary ship owned by Operation Mobilisation, that ran aground on rocks in the Beagle Channel: BAP Manco Cápac
1812: Campbell Macquarie, a 248-ton full-rigged ship captained by Richard Siddins shipwrecked in Hasselborough Bay in Tasmania on 11 June 1812 with at least four lives lost as castaways. 1814: Argo, a 4-gun barque, was stolen by convict bolters who took it to sea, to be never heard from again; 13 or 14 presumed lost.