Pangaimotu Island clean up
Channel: Royal Australian Navy
Date: 2022-03-01

The Australian Defence Force personnel have moved onto Pangaimotu Island in Tonga to begin clean-up operations ahead of Republic of Fiji Military Forces and Australian Army engineers arriving with heavy equipment.

Operation Tonga Assist 2022 is the Australian Defence Force contribution to the Australian Government's support to the Government of Tonga following the eruption of Tonga’s Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai underwater volcano on 15 January 2022 and subsequent tsunami.