Footage of Royal Tongan Marines conducting a Transfer of Authority Ceremony. Similar to New Zealand Haka dance , Sipi Tau/Kailao is a type of ceremonial war dance.\r
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Tonga (Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 177 islands with a total surface area of about 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi) scattered over 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) of the southern Pacific Ocean, of which 52 islands are inhabited by its 103,000 people. Seventy percent of Tongans reside on the main island of Tongatapu.\r
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Tonga has never lost its sovereignty to a foreign power.\r
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Video by Lance Cpl. William Kresse | 2nd Marine Logistics Group\r
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