THE COLOPHON
Sources & credits
An independent publication about ʻAtata, Tonga, and the former Royal Sunset Island Resort.
Images
- Vavaʻu waters · 18 July 2014
- Sylke Rohrlach · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original ↗
- Paepae ʻo Teleʻa, Lapaha · 9 August 2008
- Tauʻolunga · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original ↗
- ʻAtata · 08 January 2012
- Haanofonua · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original ↗
- ʻAtata shoreline · Visual reconstruction
- Royal Sunset editorial / OpenAI ImageGen · Project artwork
- Foreground layer · Visual reconstruction
- Royal Sunset editorial / OpenAI ImageGen · Project artwork
- Tongatapu group · Reef illustration
- Royal Sunset editorial / OpenAI ImageGen · Project artwork
- South Pacific · Dusk illustration
- Royal Sunset editorial / OpenAI ImageGen · Project artwork
- Eastern Vavaʻu · 20 October 2014
- David Broad · CC BY 3.0 · Original ↗
- Tonga · Painting ngatu · 1987
- James Foster (Tauʻolunga) · Public domain · Original ↗
Photographs are resized and may be cropped by the layout. The palm grove, underwater scene and dusk are labeled visual studies created for the journal.
Cartography
© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0 · Local coastline extract. Natural Earth · Public domain.
A north-up regional projection keeps the date line within the chart. The volcano pin identifies the Smithsonian volcanic system, and other pins mark representative locations.
Type
Editorial sources
- Tonga Statistics Department — 2021 population and housing census
- Voices of the Pacific, chapter 17 — field research on ʻAtata and relocation
- JICA — relocation of displaced islanders, one year on
- Tonga Ministry of Finance — budget statement, 2024–2025
- MASHAV — household biogas project in ʻAtatā Siʻi
- MORDI Tonga Trust — water supplies after the eruption
- NOAA Ocean Service — how reef sand forms
- Tonga Tourism Authority — the Niuas
- GeoNames — Niuatoputapu and islands of Tonga
- GeoNames — Lapaha settlement
- International Whaling Commission — whale watching in Tonga
- IWC catch database analysis — historical catches through 1978
- NOAA Fisheries historical review — Tongan decree and Whaling Act
- Seacology — ʻAtata village hall and marine reserve
- Australian Defence — clean-up on ʻAtata, February 2022
- World Bank — Tonga damage assessment, February 2022
- Burley and colleagues — chronology of Lapita settlement, PLOS ONE
- Tonga National Commission for UNESCO — Lapita sites, tentative list
- Clark and colleagues — stone tools and exchange, PNAS
- Tonga National Commission for UNESCO — ancient capitals, tentative list
- Legislative Assembly of Tonga — parliamentary history
- Legislative Assembly of Tonga — parliamentary handbook
- U.S. Office of the Historian — Tonga and the British protectorate
- Tonga Tourism Authority — language, Sunday and visiting villages
- Tonga Tourism Authority — food and feasting
- Tonga Tourism Authority — Tongatapu and its landmarks
- Tonga Tourism Authority — Haʻapai
- Tonga Tourism Authority — Vavaʻu
- Tonga Tourism Authority — ʻEua
- Tonga Tourism Authority — travelling between islands
- Tonga Meteorological Services — climate summary
- New Zealand SafeTravel — current travel information for Tonga
- NOAA — coral reef ecosystems
- Tonga Climate Resilient Transport Project — marine reserves assessment
- Furness and Helu — hydrogeology and geology of Tonga
- Oregon State University — bathymetry of the Tonga Trench and Forearc
- NOAA Fisheries — humpback whale biology and migration
- Garrigue and colleagues — movements of humpback whales in Oceania
- Tonga Ministry of Tourism — Whale Watching and Swimming Regulations, 2013 text
- NASA Earth Observatory — the 2022 Hunga eruption
- Borrero and colleagues — field survey of tsunami inundation and runup
- Pacific Media Network — Tonga four years after the eruption
- GeoNames — Pangai, Haʻapai
- OpenStreetMap / Geofabrik — Tonga
- UCLA Phonetics Lab — Tongan word list, entry 170
- Haanofonua — ʻAtata Island, 8 January 2012
- Royal Sunset Island Resort — historical website (private collection)
- Australian DFAT — 2022 eruption and tsunami response
- ABC Pacific — reporting from ʻAtata, January 2024
- Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program — Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai
- Matangi Tonga — naming ʻAtatā Siʻi, February 2023
- University of Waikato — Pacific Climate Mobility field research
- Tonga Prime Minister’s Office — ʻAtatā Siʻi Community Development Plan 2025–2028
- Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network — Tonga assessment
- Tonga Tourism Authority — Tongatapu Highlights Map
- SPREP / Tonga Environment Data Portal — Vavaʻu humpback whale pilot study
- Tonga Tourism Authority
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa — ngatu by Maʻata Tavake Savou
- UNESCO — Lakalaka, dances and sung speeches of Tonga
- NGA Gazetteer — ʻAtata Island