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The Lau Islands. The British explorer James Cook reached Vatoa in 1774. By the time of the discovery of the Ono Group in 1820, the Lau archipelago was the most mapped area of Fiji. Political unity came late to the Lau Islands. Historically, they comprised three territories: the Northern Lau Islands, the Southern Lau Islands, and the Moala Islands.
Lau Province is one of fourteen provinces of Fiji.Its capital is at Tubou, at the southern end of the island of Lakeba.The province forms part of the country's Eastern Division (which also includes the provinces of Kadavu and Lomaiviti), and of the Tovata Confederacy, a traditional hierarchy of chiefs from northern and eastern Fiji.
The Lakeba State denotes the first Lauan state in what is now Lau Province, Fiji. [1] It was first controlled by Lakeba. [2] They were then consolidated by the Cei-e-kena Dynasty by the end of the 17th century. This included the following southern Lau Islands: Kabara and its dependencies, Vuaqava, Marabo, Tavunasici, Komo, Fiji and Namuka
Map of Vanuabalavu and Lomaloma. Turaga na Rasau is a traditional Fijian chiefly title of the Lau Islands. Prior to Fiji's colonial days, Fiji had many different Vanua with their own Paramount Chieftain which exercised no authority over the other; a saying from the island of Kadavu aptly summarises it "Nomu Turaga o sega na noqu Turaga" or "Your Chief is not my Chief" also the people of Beqa ...
Wailagi Lala (pronounced [waiˈlaŋi ˈlala]) is the northernmost outpost of Fiji's Lau Islands.This tiny atoll, with an area of just 30 hectares (74 acres) and rising no more than 3 metres (10 ft) above mean sea level, is situated at 16.45° South and 179.6° West.
Tubou is a village on the Fijian island of Lakeba, with a population of about 2,000. [1] One of eight villages on Lakeba, it is considered the capital of the Lau Islands, being the seat of the Vuanirewa clan, a powerful chiefly family [2] from which Fiji's longtime Prime Minister and President, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara (1920–2004) [1] [3] and one of Fiji's famous cricketers I. L. Bula (born ...
Lau Fijian Provincial Communal is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 23 communal constituencies reserved for indigenous Fijians. Established by the 1997 Constitution , it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999 , 2001 , and 2006 .
Lakeba (pronounced ) is an island in Fiji’s Southern Lau Archipelago; the provincial capital of Lau is located here. The island is the tenth largest in Fiji, with a land area of nearly 60 square kilometers. [2] It is fertile and well watered, and encircled by a 29-kilometer road.