Royal Proclamation concerning boundaries of the Kingdom of Tonga. Country/Territory Tonga Document type Legislation Date 1887 Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source Government Gazette, (Vol. II-No.55). Subject Sea Keyword Maritime zone Territorial sea Sovereignty Geographical area Asia and the Pacific, Oceania, Polynesia, Small Island Developing States, South Pacific Abstract "We do hereby erect as Our Kingdom of Tonga all islands, rocks, reefs, foreshore and waters lying between the fifteenth and twenty-third and a half degrees of south latitude and between the one hundred and seventy-third and the one hundred and seventy-seventh degrees of west longitude from the Meridian of Greenwich" (full-text). Full text English