Tonga's 171 islands are located in the South Pacific ... More than 180 ships signed up under the Tongan flag before the registry closed in 2002.

Tonga's famed flag bearer, who has represented the tiny ... that he has urged people to help the small island nation. "I have to keep pushing. I have to keep doing interviews," he said in an ...

The baby island bubbled from the ocean about 65 kilometres ... Paea races to the peak and plants a small Tongan flag on a pole in the crumbling soil, like an explorer of old.