Shirley Baker Monument

Shirley Baker Monument is the last most famous historical site to see in Tonga. Among the cemetery of 19th and 20th-Century European traders and missionaries, the grave and monumental plaque for the Rev. Shirley Baker can be found. He was Tonga’s first prime minister and advisor to King Tupou I. Also, opposite the site, is a Tongan cemetery decorated with sand and coral mounds.

Shirley Waldemar Baker was a Methodist missionary in Tonga from 1836 to 16 November 1903. He was the founder of Tonga's Free Church and had considerable power under the reign of George Tupou I, who appointed him Prime Minister.

The grave and monument of Tonga's revered first prime minister and adviser to King George Tupou I, the imperious-looking Reverend Doctor Shirley Waldemar Baker (1836–1903), stands amid the graves of various 19th- and early-20th-century German and English traders and missionaries about 800 meters north of Pangai. Directly across the street is a Tongan cemetery with decorative sand and coral mounds.

Location: Pangai, Ha’apai, Tonga