Settlement of Tonga
Nukuleka — the launch point for settling all of Polynesia
Lapita voyagers landed on Tongatapu and founded Nukuleka, the oldest known settlement in Polynesia. From Tonga and Samoa their descendants would later settle the whole Polynesian Triangle.
Wikipedia (English) · 9th century BC
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Around 880 BC, Lapita seafarers landed on Tonga — at nearly the same time the Phoenicians founded Carthage. Two great ages of seafaring, worlds apart.