Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai
Meanings
name
- A seamount and volcano in Tonga, Oceania in the Tonga archipelago, Polynesia, Pacific ocean, that has two peaks that become the islets of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai.
- A former island in Tonga, on the seamount; formed from a new cinder cone that rose in the strait between the islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai, and connected them; which was destroyed in a 2022 explosive eruption, leaving the two prior islands, now smaller, separated again.
Word forms
Etymology
From Hunga Tonga + Hunga Ha'apai. From Tongan Hunga Tonga+Hunga Ha‘apai.
Synonyms
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