Worth knowing
Tonga
Cook never knew how close his friendly welcome came to ending badly. According to a later account, the chiefs who feasted him had plotted to kill him, but fell out among themselves.
Where its story happens
Lifuka, where Cook was feasted, at 19.80°S, 174.36°W. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.
Five things to know about Tonga
In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the hard countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.
- Where it is. It's Tonga, in the South Pacific, east of Fiji and south of Samoa. See Tonga on a map.
- It is the last kingdom in the Pacific, and its king lives in the capital, Nuku'alofa.
- It is the only Pacific island nation that was never formally colonised.
- Captain Cook called these the Friendly Islands, after the welcome he received in the 1770s.
- A stone gateway built here 800 or more years ago is sometimes called the Stonehenge of the Pacific.