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Topography of Viti Levu island. Enlargeable, detailed map of Viti Levu and some neighbouring islands. Viti Levu is the largest island in the Republic of Fiji – home to 70% of the population (about 600,000 people) – and is the hub of the entire Fijian archipelago.
The story of Baker's death is the basis for Jack London's short story "The Whale Tooth". [7] [8]In 1983, the American malacologist Alan Solem named the genus Vatusila "after the Fijian tribe (located at the headwaters of the Sigatoka River) that killed and ate Rev. Thomas Baker, a Wesleyan missionary, on July 21, 1867."
Other legends by the local Mabuco people refer to the stones as the "Vatu Vola", and say it was transported on the Rogovoka [a] on its last voyage from Verata. The ship had also transferred sacred rocks to the king of Tonga before coming to Fiji. This legend says the monolith was originally a statue but crumbled from years of exposure.
Suva, Fiji: South Pacific Social Sciences Association. 1978. Unaisi Nabobo-baba, Knowing & Learning - an indigenous Fijian approach, IPS Publications, University of the South Pacific, 2006. ISBN 978-982-02-0379-2. General reference to Traditional Fijian culture, terms and meanings and history with a study on the people of Vugalei on Viti Levu ...
Verata [1] is a tikina in Fiji's Tailevu Province.It is made up of several sub-districts or Tikina makawa, namely: Verata, Namalata, Tai, Vugalei, and Taivugalei.. A Political Map of Eastern Viti Levu and adjacent islands, this image is the right half of an old Fiji Government map printed initially in 1953 by the Fiji Lands Department entitled "Viti Levu and Adjacent Islands - Colony of Fiji"
The Fiji Museum holds the most important collection of Fijian artifacts in the world. [10] The centrepiece of the museum's collection is the 13 metre-long double-hulled canoe, Ratu Finau . [ 11 ] Other important objects include the rudder from HMS Bounty , objects relating to cannibalism, as well as objects that record the impact of colonial ...
Suva Central Business District in the 1950s Suva, Fiji, c. 1920. In 1868, when Suva was still a small village, the Bauan chieftain, Seru Epenisa Cakobau, granted 5,000 km 2 (1,900 sq mi) of land to the Australian-based Polynesia Company, in exchange for the company's promise to pay off debts owed to the United States.
Police Station, Lami, Fiji. Lami (Fijian pronunciation:), is an urban area in Rewa Province, Fiji, north-west of the capital Suva. It was formally incorporated as a town in 1977, and had a population of 20,529 at the most recent census in 2007. The municipal boundaries enclose an area of 683 square kilometers.