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A Century of Photos
NOVEMBER 2007
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They're fun. They're quirky. And they're full of surprises. Now more than a century of adventures and photographic memories from the magazine's archive are just a click away.
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NOVEMBER 2007
| Photograph by Luis Marden, National Geographic Image Collection |
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Tonga
BIG FUN
He was there to cover Tonga's King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV taking the throne, but the late National Geographic writer and photographer Luis Marden also caught the monarch taking to the waves. "Riding a king-size board, the 325-pound (147 kilograms) Taufa'ahau surfs in Pacific combers," noted this photo's caption in the March 1968 magazine. Low calories, Marden observed, were not of high importance in Tonga. "Sauntering youths call out to a passing beauty, 'Foi'atelolo, ta ō mu'a mata māhina hopo!' (O fat liver full of oil, let us go and watch the moonrise!)," he wrote. "The liver of a baked pig is the choice morsel reserved for chiefs, and so fond are the Tongans of fat and oily food that any right-minded Tongan girl is enormously pleased at such flattery."
—Margaret G. Zackowitz
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