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Haʻamonga ʻa Maui ("The Burden of Maui") is a stone trilithon located in Tonga, on the eastern part of the island of Tongatapu, in the village of Niutōua, in Heketā. It was built in the 13th century by King Tuʻitātui in honor of his two sons. [1] The monument is sometimes called the "Stonehenge of the Pacific". [1]
Bubonic plague stopped Kahului's development as Maui's main port in 1900. The shanty-town was deliberately burned to the ground to destroy the rats which carried the disease. The port was quickly rebuilt and a rubble stone breakwater was constructed to improve the harbor in 1884.
It is located close to the Ha'amonga 'a Maui stone on the extreme northeast corner of the island. It was the first capital of the Tu'i Tonga Empire. It had a population of 671 in 2016. [1] Niutoua was the famous residence of the Tu'itonga. Before Niutoua. It was called Heketa. Places of Interest: Ha'amonga a Maui (Uasila'a)
1. Rice. Thanks to the heavy Asian influence in Hawaii, rice is on the menu at McDonald's on the islands. It's only available for breakfast, though, which might seem odd to some mainlanders.
English: Side view of Remarkable Stone; [Mua, Tonga, c1880 to 1889]. The Haʻamonga trilithon was built in the 13th century by the 11th Tuʻi Tonga Tuʻitātui. (Information from Daly, Martin (2009). Tonga : a new bibliography (2nd ed). University of Hawaiʻi Press, Honolulu)
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