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Giant boulder on clifftop in Tonga was carried by a 50-metre-high wave


A huge tsunami hit a cliff in Tonga 7000 years ago and carried a 1200-tonne boulder 200 metres inland, making it the biggest wave-lifted boulder ever found on a cliff

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