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| Land Boudaries Total :
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| Geographic Coordinates :
| tropical; modified by trade winds; warm season (December to May), cool season (May to December) .
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| Area Total :
| 748 sq km .
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| Area Land :
| 718 sq km .
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| Area Water :
| 30 sq km .
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| Area Comparative :
| four times the size of Washington, DC .
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| Coast Line :
| 419 km .
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| Railways Total :
| 680 km .
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| Highways Total :
| 680 km .
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| Ports and Harbors :
| Neiafu, Nuku'alofa, Pangai .
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Recent findings by archaeologists have suggested that evidence exists of a greater population throughout the Pacific region that was more consistent with the estimates put forward by Cook and Durville and much larger than that recorded by the later European presence in Oceania. This Web site looks at one of the remainders of an earlier civilisation - Ancient Tonga and the Lost City of Mu'a.
In the traditional view of ancient Tonga, the islands were first settled about 3500 years ago as part of the movement of seafarers from the western islands of Indonesia to the Pacific Islands beyond New Guinea. With their movements determined by the discovery of the distinctive Lapita pottery, the Lapita people continued out into the western Pacific, beyond the already inhabited Solomon Islands and Vanuatu archipelago to the uninhabited islands of Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. Archaeologists speculate that the Lapita people existed for about 1,000 years and then suddenly the use of pottery died out and the technology was lost.
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