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Ko Tevita Fifita Mo E Tuaikaepau : A Translation By Nigel Statham Of Olaf Ruhen's Minerva Reef
Alfred Street (University of Auckland Store)
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Ko Tevita Fifita Mo E Tuaikaepau : A Translation By Nigel Statham Of Olaf Ruhen's Minerva Reef
Hardback Edition: 1
Entirely in Tongan - On the night of 7 July 1962 the twenty-ton cutter 'Tuaikaepau", sailing from Tonga to Auckland, ran hard upon the outer edge of Minerva Reef, 380 miles south of Suva in Fiji. Heavy seas and the sharp teeth of the coral quickly broke the cutter to pieces, and her complement of 17 Tongans found themselves without even a small boat on a reef that was totally submerged except during the few hours of low tide each day.
They had neither food nor water; their only shelter was the hulk of a Japanese trawler that had been earlier wrecked on the reef; and some of them had litle or no experience of the sea.
Yet all but a few of these men survived. They kept themselves alive for 102 days on the reef, and finally they encompansed their own rescue".
Publisher : Friendly Islands Bookshop Pres
Publication date : 2023
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in Tonga, Pasifika, Tonga, Tongan History