William Mariner (writer)
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William Charles Mariner was an Englishman who lived in Tonga from 29 November 1806 to 8 November 1810. His notes were published in 1818 by John Martin in An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands
An 1816 engraving depicting William Mariner in Tongan dress
Lifuka
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Lifuka Island is an island in Tonga. It sits approximately 170 kilometres north-east of the capital, Nukuʻalofa, and covers an area of 12.2 square kilometres.
William Mariner (writer)
…Christianity. At age 14, Mariner was a ship's clerk aboard the British privateer Port au Prince. In 1806, while it was anchored off the Tongan island of Lifuka, in the Ha'apai island group, Port au Prince was seized by a chief named Fīnau ʻUlukālala. Of the 26 crew members, 22 were killed, while the chief…
Reconstruction of the face of a Lapita woman exhibited in the National Museum of Ethnology of Japan
A church on Lifuka that had its roof torn off by Cyclone Ian in January 2014.
Aerial view of the island after the passage of Cyclone Ian in 2014.