This Article History of Tonga is composed of Creative Common Content.\n The Original Article can be location at WikiPedia.org.\n \n\nSeafarers associated with the Lapita diaspora first settled the islands making up the Kingdom of Tonga about 1500 BC.PV Kirch. 1997. The Lapita Peoples. Cambridge Blackwell Publisher\nref\nThe area served along with Fiji and Samoa as a gateway into the rest of the Pacific region known as Polynesia.see DV Burley. 1998. Tongan Archaeology and the Tongan Past 2850150 B.P. In Journal of World Prehistory 12337392ref Ancient Tongan mythologies recorded by early European explorers report the islands of Ata and Tongatapu as the first islands being hauled to the surface from the deep ocean by Maui.Honolulu The MuseumrefJ Martin. 2005 reprint. William Mariner An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. Vol. 1. Elibron Classicsref