Pangai is the administrative capital village of the Haʻapai Group in Tonga .
6-472: The village is on the western shore of Lifuka and has a population of 1,026. The village center is around the Catholic Church ( Siasi Katolika ) and Holopeka Road by the harbor. There are only a few shops and markets and one bank. There are few historic sites besides some churches, a few Colonial styled houses and cemeteries. The island's Pilolevu Airport ( Lifuka Island Airport , IATA code "HPA")
12-613: Is an island in the Kingdom of Tonga . It is located within the Haʻapai Group in the centre of the country, to northeast of the national capital of Nukuʻalofa . It is the administrative centre of the Haʻapai group of islands with Pangai being the administrative capital village. Lifuka is the place where Captain James Cook dubbed Tonga "The Friendly Islands". Tofua is where the mutiny on
18-590: Is situated about 5 km north of Pangai. There is a ferry dock, called the Pangai Ferry Terminal . The Methodist missionary Shirley Waldemar Baker , who was prime minister of Tonga under king George Tupou I , died in Pangai on 16 November 1903. His grave and monument in the cemetery still stand as a tourist attraction. 19°48′12″S 174°20′56″W / 19.80333°S 174.34889°W / -19.80333; -174.34889 Lifuka Lifuka
24-555: The Bounty occurred in 1789; this active volcanic island lies approximately 40 nautical miles west of Lifuka. The Captain Bligh voyage stands as the longest known successful passage ever recorded in an open boat without modern navigational aids. It was successfully recreated in 2009 by the Talisker Bounty team. Lifuka Island was the final anchorage of the ill-fated Port au Prince . In 1806
30-644: The experiences of Mariner in the book An account of the natives of the Tongan Islands , a now highly respected anthropological study of early civilisation in the Kingdom of Tonga . The anchor of the Port au Prince was rediscovered in 2009 by a dive operator based on Lifuka. In August 2012, the wreck of the ship was discovered off the coast of Foa Island , in Tonga. It has a population of 2,968 and an area of 11.42 km . There
36-510: The natives off the northwest coast attacked the British privateer and whaler , slaughtering the majority of the crew. One of the few survivors of the attack, William Mariner , was befriended by the King and spent the next four years in the Kingdom before being allowed to return to England. A chance meeting with the author John Martin upon his return resulted in a collaboration that eventually documented
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