evidence: The ownership of Minerva Reefs has been an unresolved issue between Fiji and Tonga for quite a while. Minerva reefs is a group of two submerged atolls named after the whaling ship Minerva that wrecked there in 1829. [...] Tonga declared Minerva part of its territory in 1972, after late King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV made a royal proclamation that it belongs to Tonga.