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Haʻamonga ʻa Maui

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c. 1200 · Niutōua, Tongatapu · Oceania · Culture

A Tongan king's stone gateway, the 'Stonehenge of the Pacific'

Haʻamonga ʻa Maui
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In the 13th century Tuʻitātui, the eleventh Tuʻi Tonga, raised a trilithon of coral limestone slabs, each weighing tens of tonnes, in the east of Tongatapu. The name means 'the Burden of Maui': legend says only the demigod could have carried such stones. It is known as the 'Stonehenge of the Pacific'.

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