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Sam06
A real life Lord of the Flies: The 50-year-old story of a group of teens stranded on an island
Holly Williams reports on how a group of schoolboys worked together to survive 15 months stranded on an island.


  • Mano Totau and Sione Fataua shared their stunning survival story in a 60 Minutes special aired Sunday
  • They were teens studying at a Tonga boarding school when they and four friends decided to steal a whaling boat and travel to Fiji in June of 1965
  • The joyride took a grim turn when a storm ripped apart the engineless boat and left them drifting for days
  • They eventually landed on the volcanic island of 'Ata, where they were stranded for 15 months 
  • Totau and Fataua described how they lived on raw fish and birds and built a makeshift compound to survive
  • It wasn't until September 1966 that sailor Peter Warner spotted the boys and rescued them 
  • More than 50 years later their story was revived by Dutch author Rutger Bregman in a book last year
  • Bregman said he was struck by how the story resembled William Golding's iconic novel Lord of the Flies


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  • allen griggs

    A great story. I have never heard of this before.

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  • Sam06

    I hadn't heard of it either.

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  • Horse Plains Drifter

    Wow, what a story!

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  • William81

    Very interesting story....thanks for putting that up...

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  • SCOUT5

    Thanks for posting. Finding the chicken population not only meant meat but eggs also. Finding the container and machete was a big asset. Since there were only six of them there wasn't much chance of a division among them.

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  • love2shoot

    Just watched Lord of the flies lastnight, strange.

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