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I was stationed near the Tongan capital, Nukualofa, during the war.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the visiting Queen stepped ashore at the Tongan capital of Nukualofa, it began to rain once more.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a training institution at Nukualofa, for missionaries, and for masters and mistresses of schools.
From Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Some time before this, two Tahitian teachers connected with the London Missionary Society, on their way to Fiji had resided with Tubou, chief of Nukualofa.
From The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific by Pearse, Alfred
A prominent resident whom we had met at Nukualofa, Mr. Parker, wrote to describe the honours paid to his memory.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh
Nuku’alofa has almost buckled under the pressure of all this interest.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2024
Those include an embassy in Honiara, Solomon Islands, that opened in January; an embassy in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, that opened in May and planned embassies in Port Vila, Vanuatu, and in Tarawa, Kiribati.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Members of Tonga's Red Cross society set up a temporary tent in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, January 23, 2022.
From Reuters ● Feb. 22, 2022
Two people who contracted it worked at a port in the capital, Nuku’alofa.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2022
Cases were found in the capital city Nuku'alofa - two fresh ones were at the port where aid has been arriving, following the recent volcanic eruption and tsunami; three others were in one family.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2022
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