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The Tonga and Kermadec Ridges

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The Ocean Basins and Margins

Abstract

The 150 islands forming the Kingdom of Tonga seem to have been sought unconsciously by daring navigators. Uninhabited, they were first visited and settled during Polynesian ocean migrations four or five centuries before the Christian era, and it was only 2000 years later that they were discovered afresh by the first European voyagers.

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Dupont, J. (1988). The Tonga and Kermadec Ridges. In: Nairn, A.E.M., Stehli, F.G., Uyeda, S. (eds) The Ocean Basins and Margins. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8041-6_9

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