afford — Toiigan Place Names 

 REMARKS ON THE GAZETTEER 



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In compiling the list of Tongan place names, the following information, 

 when available, is recorded: (i) the feature to which the name is ap- 

 plied; (2) the group of islands in which the feature occurs; (3) the 

 island on which the place is located; (4) the village near which it is 

 located; (5) the name of the landlord; (6) the meaning of the name; 

 and (7) miscellaneous data. 





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Figure i. — Outline m-»p showing the villages of the Vavau group. 



In the Gazetteer the largest number of names are of tracts (a/»() and 

 village tracts (apikolo) and were obtained from the Tongan land ofifice 

 records. The tracts are the farm lands of the population, and each tract 

 listed is today held by a Tongan tenant. Most of the tract names seem 

 to be ancient. Not so the village tract names, many of which are of for- 

 eign countries ; for village life in Tonga is only a century and a quarter 

 old, the population formerly dwelling scattered over the land. Civil war. 



