The Kingdom of Tonga is an archipelago in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean containing 169 volcanic and coral islands, only 36 islands are inhabited. Tonga is the only monarchy remaining in the entire Pacific region.
From the vivid journals of historic seafaring European voyagers, a romantic and sexual image was generated and endures of these Polynesian islands.The present reality in the islands of Tonga, however, paints a different picture of a very conservative Christian missionary influenced country.