The island also has a colorful origin story in Tongan mythology, which involves quarreling gods, a stolen mountain and a ...

Tonga is a land of endless beauty that marches to the beat of its own dream and is a unique island country offering a host of delights for those brave enough to make the long journey to get there.

Tonga is not, in fact, an island – it’s 176 islands, only 40 of them inhabited. From Nuku’alofa you can spend a day on everyone’s image of a perfect desert island.

Since 2022, the underwater volcano of Home Reef has repeatedly emerged, adding hectares of land to the Tonga archipelago. Successive eruptions have allowed the island to reach an area of 12.2 ...

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Genetic evidence suggests that the reptiles somehow managed millions of years ago to make an ocean crossing from North ...

An underwater volcano near the South Pacific island nation of Tonga erupted on January 15. The eruption unleashed explosive forces that dwarfed the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, Nasa ...

On the 14th of January, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano began a gigantic eruption that would go on to peak in ferocity the next day. The uninhabited island volcano would quickly make ...

The 'Tongan castaways' miraculously worked together to survive on the volcanic island before their unexpected rescue more ...

The towering undersea volcano known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai had awakened, and on a balmy afternoon in January 2022 it began blasting its insides into the sky above this Pacific island chain ...

Tonga Netball chief executive Salote Sisifa has been appointed interim president of Oceania Netball Federation. Oceania ...