# Hunga Tonga-Hunga eruption from space **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 15, 2022, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunga-tonga-hunga-eruption-from-space/957857 "2022-01-15T18:04:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunga-tonga-hunga-eruption-from-space/957857/21 "2022-01-21T02:30:35Z")
Yup. On the cover they were listed as “Coronations a world apart.” The Iranian affair was huge aand splashy. The Tongan was patterned on the British of course, in a church, and more simple. The Tongan monarchy is still there though. I like reading about Queen Salote. I think she was 6’ 3" Saw a video clip once of her arrival in England for the coronation of QEII. She was taller than the guards assigned to her. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunga-tonga-hunga-eruption-from-space/957857/22 "2022-01-27T00:09:07Z")
Here’s an educational film about a smallpox vaccination program in Tonga in 1965. Because of their isolation, many if not most of them had never been vaxed because the disease had never existed there, and health authorities believed that it would be a good idea because of the increase even then of international travel. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/etZGDxG6PAk/hqdefault.jpg "Miracle in Tonga (USPHS, 1965)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etZGDxG6PAk) Some of the tinfoil-hatters are insisting that this was actually a nuclear explosion, and the fiberoptic lines were deliberately cut. I respectfully disagree. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunga-tonga-hunga-eruption-from-space/957857.md?page=1)