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# European discovery Country forums / Pacific Islands & Papua New Guinea / Tonga
leo_walsh 05:01 UTC 21 Jan 2009 | Apparently today is the day that Abel Tasman discovered Tonga in 1643. Tongatapu he named Amsterdam, and Ha'apai he called Rotterdam. |
hardnosethehighway 06:02 UTC 21 Jan 2009 | Well that's one bullet the Tongans dodged-look at how badly the Dutch buggered the Indos-Hollanders were the worst Euro-colonisers ever. | 1
leo_walsh 04:47 UTC 22 Jan 2009 | yup | 2
mandja 23:27 UTC 22 Jan 2009 | Gee, I think there are many who would dispute that the Dutch were the worst. The Belgians in the Congo Portuguese/Spaniards in Sth America Poms in India French in Algeria Mongols in Asia generally | 3
leo_walsh 01:34 UTC 25 Jan 2009 | Just had a thought. I've been to the Captain Cook landing site and he landed in, is it 1777?, but I can't remember a monument to Abel Tasman. | 4