Friendly Islands Definition

pronoun

The kingdom of Tonga.

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Origin of Friendly Islands

  • Named as such because of the friendly reception Captain James Cook received on his first visit to Tonga in 1773.

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Friendly Islands Sentence Examples

  • He then reached Tongatabu, one of the Friendly Islands of Cook; and returned by the north coast of New Guinea to Batavia.

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

  • Two missionaries were sent to the Friendly Islands in 1826, and in 1835 a mission was undertaken among the cannibals of Fiji, which spread and deepened till the whole group of islands was transformed.

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