ABSTRACT
Since German traders first began arriving in the Tongan islands in the midnineteenth century, their presence has had a major impact on the country. Their influence-through copra plantations, trade, business and even architecture-is still visible in Tonga today. Yet no influence by those first emigrants has been quite as impactful as their familial legacies. Many of these Germans married or otherwise formed unions with Tongan women, resulting in a new generation of mixed-race German-Tongan children. 2 Today, there are thousands of individuals of German-Tongan ancestry living around the world.
