Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 .
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.
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.
Tongan castaways This page was last edited on 24 August 2019, at 14:19 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
ʻAtā is a small island in the Tongatapu group of Tonga. It has been used since 2001 [ 1 ] as an open prison for Tongan criminals , especially young people . [ 2 ] In 2002, there were seven prisoners on the island, who grew yams, coconuts, manioc, and bananas to pay for their expenses.
This page was last edited on 5 December 2023, at 00:23 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Minerva Reef: Fourteen desperate weeks with the castaway Tongans. Sydney, Australia: Minerva Bookshop Ltd. Feuiaki, Fine (1992). Minerva reef = Hakau Minerva: the Tuaikaepau's tragic voyage. Nuku'alofa, Tonga: Friendly Islands Bookshop. Titchener, Paul (1978). Little Ships of New Zealand (Hardback). Wellington: A.H & A.W. Reed. ISBN 0-589-01068-9.