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Haʻamonga ʻa Maui
The Haʻamonga ʻa Maui is a stone trilithon on the north-eastern coast of Tongatapu, Tonga. Two upright slabs of coral limestone, about five metres high, support a lintel set into notches at their tops. Tongan tradition credits its construction to the Tuʻi Tonga Tuʻitātui around 1200, possibly as a gateway to his royal compound. In 1967 King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV proposed that marks on the lintel align with sunrise at the solstices.
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