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Region. Asia and the Pacific. Levuka (Fijian pronunciation: [leβuka]) is a town on the eastern coast of the Fijian island of Ovalau, in Lomaiviti Province, in the Eastern Division of Fiji. Prior to 1877, it was the capital of Fiji. At the census in 2007, the last to date, Levuka town had a population of 1,131 (plus 3,266 living in the peri ...
Description. Levuka Historical Port Town. Eastern Division. 17°41′02″S 178°50′24″E / 17.684014°S 178.840127°E / -17.684014; 178.840127 (Levuka Historical Port Town) Cultural (ii) (iv) 2013. The town and its low line of buildings set among coconut and mango trees along the beach front was the first colonial capital of ...
80 feet (24 m) Materials. Wood, stone. The Sacred Heart Church, [1][2] also known as the Church of the Sacred Heart[3] or Sacred Heart Catholic Church, is a Roman Catholic church on the Fijian island of Ovalau, situated on Beach Street in the town of Levuka. [4][5] The church's clock tower serves as a lighthouse to guide the ships to the port ...
Language codes. ISO 639-3. lvu. Glottolog. levu1239. Levuka is a Central Malayo-Polynesian language of the island of Lembata, east of Flores in Indonesia.
The Lomaiviti (pronounced [lomaiˈβitʃi]) archipelago of Fiji consists of seven main islands and a number of smaller ones. They cover a total area of 411 square kilometres (159 sq mi), and had a population of 15,657 at the most recent census in 2017. [1] The largest town, with a population of 1,131 in 2007, is Levuka, which was Fiji's first ...
Levuka, 1842 Fijian ship, 1842 Fijian house, 1842. Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first known European visitor to Fiji, sighting the northern island of Vanua Levu and the North Taveuni archipelago in 1643 while looking for Terra Australis incognita, or the Great Southern Continent. [15]
Village of Levuka, 1842 Interior of a hut in Levuka, 1842. In the early 1820s, Levuka was established as the first modern town in Fiji, on the island of Ovalau.The intervention of European traders and missionaries, of whom the first arrived from Tahiti in 1830, led to increasingly serious wars among the native Fijian confederacies.
Central Pacific. East Fijian. Lomaiviti. Language codes. ISO 639-3. lmv. Glottolog. loma1261. Lomaiviti is an East Fijian language spoken by about 1,600 people on a number of islands of Fiji .