ʻEua

ʻEua
'Eua National park, looking south, on the Eastern side of 'Eua

ʻEua is a smaller but still major island in the kingdom of Tonga. It is close to Tongatapu, but forms a separate administrative division. It has an area of 87.44 km2, and a population in 2006 of 5,165 people.

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Geography

ʻEua is a hilly island, the highest peaks are the Teʻemoa (chicken manure) 312 m, with the grave of the soldier on top, and the Vaiangina (watersprings) 305 m. The island is not volcanic, but was shaped by the rubbing of the Tonga plate against the Pacific plate, pushing ʻEua up and leaving the 7 km deep Tonga trench on the bottom of the ocean, a short distance towards the east. The soil of ʻEua is volcanic, as is that of Tongatapu, but only the top layer, deposited by eruptions of nearby volcanoes ten thousands years ago. Under it are the solid rocks of pushed-up coral. ʻEua counts many huge caves and holes, not all of which have yet been explored.

ʻEua is the only island in Tonga that has a river, and had the only bridge in the kingdom until Vavaʻu also built one. The river drains into the harbour near the capital of the island, edit] Myths

Together with ʻAta, ʻEua was the first island to be created by Tangaloa, see[1] Tangaloa And The Story Of How ‘Eua Island Was Created.

History

ʻEua was put on the European maps by Abel Tasman who reached it and Tongatapu on 21 January 1643. He called it Middelburg Island, after the Dutch province of Zeeland. He did not go on land, but proceeded to the Hihifo district of Tongatapu, which he named Amsterdam Island after the capital of the Netherlands.

Demography

The villages of the original inhabitants of ʻEua are all in the north Houma, Pangai, Tufuvai.

Kolomaile are from the original inhabitants from ʻAta, who were resettled there in 1863. The villages just north of that up to Angahā, are from the inhabitants of Niuafoʻou who were resettled there in 1946.

References

  1. ^ "Tangaloa". Archived from the original on 2009-09-21. http://www.eua-island-tonga.com/Tangaloa.html. Retrieved 2009-09-18. 

Coordinates: 21°23′15″S 174°56′02″W / 21.3875°S 174.93389°W / -21.3875; -174.93389


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