Friendly Islands

British

plural noun

another name for Tonga 2

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But the present has stirred up concerns about China's growing role in the archipelago once known as the Friendly Islands.

From BBC

When the chief was absent, at some other of the Friendly Islands, the bowl was considered as his representative, and honored accordingly.

From Project Gutenberg

Various specimens of the first beginning of printing in one of the Friendly Islands, Vavau, consisting of the Bible in the Tonga language, and of several elementary books, were presented by Capt.

From Project Gutenberg

She went out to Buenos Ayres, and the other day she was taken in to dinner by the Bishop of the Friendly Islands.

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Thence he went to the Kurile Islands and Kamchatka, and sailed from the far north down the meridian to the Navigator and Friendly Islands.

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