The "amiable" former name of the Tongan archipelago
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The Archipelago | NZETC  This particular archipelago is indeed but a link in a huge chain of islands ... Sci., ii., 1884); Gente Hermosa, of which Whitmee says, "The island was formerly inhabited ... of the unfortunate, unsuspecting, and amiable natives were seized and taken ... The names here given will, to those acquainted with Gilbert Island, Tongan,...
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Tonga - Encyclopedia - Theodora  TONGA, Or Friendly Islands (So called by Captain Cook), an archipelago in the .... Various customs, traditions and names of places also point to a former ... In disposition they are amiable and courteous, but arrogant, lively, inquisitive and...
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The Kingdom Of Tonga | Three Millennia of History  Three millennia later, reminders of these ancient times are dotted throughout the islands. ... the Niuas, the small northern most islands of the Tongan archipelago. ... Tonga the 'Friendly Isles', not realising the amiable and social nature of the locals ... Ironically his positive and complementary name for the Kingdom of Tonga...
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Tonga during the 1800s. The Maritime Heritage Project. Sea ...  ... checked during the reign of Taufa'ahu Tupou, who in 1831 took the name George. .... The ancient burial places of the Tongan chiefs were built of coral limestone, .... such disturbances may again occur on the death of the present amiable monarch. ... at all events, of Great Britain over the adjoining archipelago of Tonga.
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Tonga - World Map  The archipelago called the Kingdom of Tonga is located in the southern ... Some of the names that make up the list of avian fauna in Tonga are frigate birds,...
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Pitcairn Islands - Wikipedia  The Pitcairn Islands or officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of ... The islands are inhabited mostly by descendants of the Bounty mutineers ... The earliest known settlers of the Pitcairn Islands were Polynesians who .... is also capable of supporting a small human population despite its scarce...
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George Tupou I - Wikipedia  George Tupou I, King of Tonga (c. 1797  18 February 1893), was originally known as ... Since then, Tuku'aho's siblings and descendants have had antagonistic feelings ... He made Pangai Ha'apai the first capital of his realm in 1845. ... an holiday), the constitution was promulgated and Tonga officially became a kingdom.
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(The Tyranny of Distance)2 : A visit to the Friendly Islands ...  Sep 13, 2010 ... There are few bargains to be had in Tonga for tourists, if even they ... descendants of those left here by Captain Cook in the 18th century, and ... I saw no buildings over three floors in height, and no traffic lights. ... The name tells the truth. ... it the Friendly Islands, a reflection of the reception he received there.
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The Cicadas of the Fiji, Samoa and Tonga Islands - Botany ...  Phylogeny of three groups of south-west Pacific cicadas . . . _ . . . . . . . . .... like to thank the following persons also in the Insti- ... islands Viti Levu, Vanua Levu and Taveuni, the ... study of these Aceropyga species led to a better un- ... specimens were wrongly labelled. ... male abdomen with club-shaped apical part formed by.
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Pacific Peoples: Polynesians and Melanesians - South Pacific Travel  The Sea of Islands that is the Pacific is divided into three great cultural areas: ... The name Polynesia comes from the Greek words poly (many) and nesos (islands). ... considering that all three regions have "many islands" and "small islands";...
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Fetching Names: The Honest i - Appellation Mountain  Dec 29, 2011 ... But I love her meaning  it translates roughly to heavenly bird  and the former royal palace in Honolulu is the 'Iolani Palace. Iolani also...
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Tonga - Wikipedia  Tonga officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago .... Tonga joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1970 (atypically as a country with its ... King Tupou VI (a descendant of the first monarch), his family, powerful .... It is a full member of the Pacific Islands Forum, the South Pacific Applied...
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Captain Cook Themes - People  Cook and his crew recorded in great detail the people of the areas that they visited - their .... Parkinson and Joseph Banks went to see the entertainment called a Heivo: ... Samwell described the scene at Hapaee in the Friendly Islands (Tonga): A prodigious Number of the Natives were collected together on the Beach & a...
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands - Wikipedia  The Gilbert and Ellice Islands were a British protectorate from 1892 and colony from 1916 until ... The name Ellice was applied to all nine islands, of what is now Tuvalu, after the ... The following year, the Ellice Islands became the separate British colony of Tuvalu. ... The Islands used their own postage stamps from 1911.
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Full text of "Natural History" - Internet Archive  Indeed it is, so close he fairly crowds your field of view and you almost recoil from his nearness. ...... A camping-sightseeing zigzag from North-east to South-west through the ..... of New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga the beauties of Samoa and the Hawaiian Islands. ...... Thus the 180th meridian became the International Date Line.
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About Tonga - REALtonga  Book Now ... Tonga became known as the Friendly Islands because of the congenial reception accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit in 1773. ... The Tongan people first encountered Europeans in 1616 when the Dutch vessel ... and Jacob Le Maire (who called on the northern island of Niuatoputapu), and in...
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Tonga - Wikipedia  Tonga officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago ... In many Polynesian languages including Tongan, the word tonga means ... its own monarch rather than that of the United Kingdom, similar to Malaysia, .... Tonga is an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, directly south of Samoa...
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PAPUA NEW GUINEA: THE LAST UNKNOWN | Deseret News  Aug 13, 1995 ... Fittingly, it is often called "The Last Unknown." ... the island and named it Ilhas dos Papuas - island of the fuzzy-hairs, from the Malay word papuwah. ... Not far away is the Wahgi Valley, once a marshy swamp that has only...
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Tonga facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about ...  There were 104 males for every 100 females in the country. ... In 1989 approximately 39,400 Tongans lived in the United States, Australia, and ... and called Lifuka in the Ha'apai group the "friendly island" because of the ... its peoplehence the archipelago received its nickname, the Friendly Islands. ..... Japan, 3.9, 3.7, 0.2.
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Tonga - Aspects - Our Pacific Ocean  Like Samoa to the north, Tonga has managed to maintain its Polynesian culture in ... As the Tonga Visitors Bureau says, the kingdom "still remains far away from it all; still ... In other Polynesian languages, the word Tonga means "south. ... of Tonga and the rest of Polynesia. but to the Tongans the name means "garden," and...
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J! Archive - Show #4232, aired 2003-01-14  This island off Guinea-Bissau bears the old name of Taiwan ... "Able was I ere I saw" this largest island of the Tuscan archipelago...