Tonga, officially known as the Kingdom of Tonga, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania. The country has 171 islands, of which 45 are inhabited. Its total surface area is about 750 km2, sc
Tongan tropical moist forests
…The Tongan tropical moist forests is a tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests ecoregion that includes the Tonga archipelago and Niue. The ecoregion includes the Tonga archipelago, a group of 170 islands that extends 800 km north to south between 15º to 23ºS…
The arrival of Abel Tasman in Tongatapu, 1643; drawing by Isaack Gilsemans
Reception for Captain Cook, Ha'apai, Tonga, 1773-1784
William Mariner was a teenaged English sailor adopted into a royal Tongan family.