Haʻamonga ʻa Maui ("The Burden of Maui") is a stone trilithon located in Tonga, on the eastern part of the island of Tongatapu, in the village of Niutōua...

translation of the title is "the vision of Maui". An example of a massive ancient Tongan stone monument is Ha'amonga 'a Maui. Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth...

of Malta (which like Stonehenge are a UNESCO World Heritage Site), the Osireion in Egypt, and the Haʻamonga ʻa Maui in Tonga, Polynesia. The term is also...

Niutoua is a village in Tongatapu, Tonga. It is located close to the Ha'amonga 'a Maui stone on the extreme northeast corner of the island. It was the...

only a symbolic rule. From the first capital at Toloa, around 1000 years ago, to the second capital at Heketā, at the site of the Haʻamonga ʻa Maui Trilithon...

monument is the Haʻamonga ʻa Maui, a six-metre-tall (20 ft) trilithon consisting in three coral slabs (two holding up the third as a crosspiece), located...

megalithic stoneworks. Most notably, these are the Haʻamonga ʻa Maui and the Langi terraced tombs. The Haʻamonga is 5 meters high and made of three coral-lime...

Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. Vol. 1. Elibron Classics "Ha'amonga 'a Maui (Trilithon) and 'esi Maka Fa'akinanga". Wondermondo. 20 November 2011...

pole over the shoulders. This is called the haʻamo (Compare with: Haʻamonga ʻa Maui). During the initial mourning period the mourners (especially the...

This is a timeline of Tongan history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Tonga and its predecessor states. To...