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14 unusual facts about Tongatapu


1999–2000 South Pacific cyclone season

An eye developed on 9 March, and Mona was upgraded to hurricane intensity at 0600 UTC, located 55 km (35 mi) west of Tongatapu.

Wind warnings were issued for some islands in Tonga including Vavau, Haapai and Tongatapu.

2005–06 South Pacific cyclone season

Tropical Depression 10F was last monitored on February 4 about 740 km (460 mi) southeast of Tongatapu.

Aotsurugi Kenta

Aotsurugi Kenta (born December 16, 1982 as Tebita Rato Taufa) is a former professional sumo wrestler from Tongatapu, Tonga.

Economy of Tonga

Much of small business, particularly retailing on Tongatapu, is now dominated by recent Chinese immigrants who arrived under a cash-for-passports scheme that ended in 1998.

ʻIsileli Pulu

Pulu was first elected to Parliament for the island of Tongatapu at the 2002 election.

Kaveinga Faʻanunu

His brief career in national politics began when he was elected People's Representative for the ninth constituency of Tongatapu in the November 2010 general election.

Semisi Tapueluelu

His career in national politics began when he was elected People's Representative for the tenth constituency of Tongatapu in the November 2010 general election.

Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō

Lord Tuʻivakanō was elected as a noble representative for the island of Tongatapu in the 1996 election.

Sione Taione

His career in national politics began when he was elected People's Representative for the eighth constituency of Tongatapu in the November 2010 general election.

The Girl Guides Association of the Kingdom of Tonga

Guiding was started in Tonga at the instigation of Queen Salote in 1952, and the first companies were formed on the island of Tongatapu.

Tongatapu

Tupou College - first educational establishment in the kingdom located in the eastern district of Tongatapu near Malapo

Tuaikaepau

They stopped briefly at the Island of Ata, south of Tongatapu, before continuing on to New Zealand.

Vai Lahi

The island is the most northerly island of Tonga, is the most northerly island in the kingdom of Tonga, and is located some 570 km north of the kingdom's main island, Tongatapu.


Mapu a Vaea

The Mapu a Vaea or "Whistle of the Noble" are natural blowholes on the island of Tongatapu in the village of Houma in the Kingdom of Tonga.

Nikotimasi Fatafehi Laufilitonga Kakau Vaha'i

Nikotimasi Fatafehi Laufilitonga Kakau Vahaʻi of Tonga (born September 1971), styled simply the Hon. Vaha'i in most references, is the Lord Vaha'i of Fo'ui, as well as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the Nobles in Tonga, holding one of three such seats for the Nobles of Tongatapu.

Queen Salote College

Located at Vaha'akolo Road opposite Mala'ekula, Tongatapu, the school stands where Tupou College first stood at the time of its establishment in 1866, then to Nafualu in 1921.

Rugby union in Tonga

Tonga has four main rugby playing islands, Vava'u which produced players like Epi Taione, Ha'apai which produced players like Jonah Lomu, Eua which produced the Vunipola family, (eight brothers who all played for the national team), and Tongatapu the major island in the Tonga island group.

Tongan general election, 2014

These overlap with the four constituencies for the election of the nobles' representatives: a four-member constituency covering Tongatapu and ʻEua, a two-member constituency covering Vavaʻu, a two-member constituency covering Haʻapai, and a single-member constituency covering the islands of Niuafoʻou and Niuatoputapu.

Tongatapu Rail

It is known only from brief descriptions of a specimen, now lost, collected from Tongatapu in 1777 in the course of James Cook’s third voyage to the Pacific, and from a contemporary illustration by Georg Forster.