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Lifuka is an island in the Kingdom of Tonga. It is located within the Haʻapai Group in the centre of the country, to northeast of the national capital of Nukuʻalofa.

It is the administrative centre of the Haʻapai group of islands with Pangai being the administrative capital village.

History

Lifuka is the place where Captain James Cook dubbed Tonga "The Friendly Islands". Tofua is where the mutiny on the Bounty occurred in 1789; this active volcanic island lies approximately 40 nautical miles west of Lifuka. The Captain Bligh voyage stands as the longest known successful passage ever recorded in an open boat without modern navigational aids. It was successfully recreated in 2009 by the Talisker Bounty team.

Lifuka Island was the final anchorage of the ill-fated Port au Prince. In 1806 the natives off the northwest coast attacked the British privateer and whaler, slaughtering the majority of the crew. One of the few survivors of the attack, William Mariner, was befriended by the King and spent the next four years in the Kingdom before being allowed to return to England. A chance meeting with the author John Martin upon his return resulted in a collaboration that eventually documented the experiences of Mariner in the book An account of the natives of the Tongan Islands, a now highly respected anthropological study of early civilisation in the Kingdom of Tonga. The anchor of the Port au Prince was rediscovered in 2009 by a dive operator based on Lifuka. In August 2012, the wreck of the ship was discovered off the coast of Foa Island, in Tonga.

Demography

It has a population of 2,968 and an area of 11.42 km².[1]

Villages

• Haʻatoʻu
• Holopeka
• Koulo
• Pangai
• Tongoleleka

Transportation

There is an airport, the Lifuka Island Airport.

See also

• List of cities in Tonga

References

На других языках

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[de] Lifuka

Lifuka ist neben Foa eine der beiden Hauptinseln von Haʻapai, einer zu Tonga gehörenden Inselgruppe, sowie ein Verwaltungsdistrikt. Die Koralleninsel hat eine Fläche von 11,42 km² und ist mit der benachbarten Insel Foa im Norden über eine 1 km lange Brücke verbunden.

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- [en] Lifuka

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[es] Lifuka

Lifuka es la isla principal del grupo Ha‘apai, en el reino de Tonga, donde está la villa principal del grupo, Pangai. En ocasiones se le llama también isla Ha‘apai o isla Pangai. Sus coordenadas son: 19°50′S 174°22′O.

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[fr] Lifuka

Lifuka est la principale île du groupe de Ha'apai, un territoire appartenant à l'archipel des Tonga. Sa principale agglomération est la petite ville de Pangai (2 000 habitants), sur la côte occidentale.

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[it] Lifuka

Lifuka è un'isola delle Tonga. Amministrativamente appartiene alla divisione Haʻapai, nel distretto di Pangai, e ospita il capoluogo della regione stessa, Pangai.

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[ru] Лифука

Лифука (тонг. Lifuka) — главный остров группы Хаапай (Королевство Тонга).

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