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Levuka is famous for many of Fiji's "firsts". [4] It was the site of Fiji's first bank, [4] post office, school, private members club, hospital, town hall, and municipal government. [citation needed] Fiji's first newspaper, [4] the Fiji Times, which is still in operation today, was founded in Levuka in 1869. Levuka's Royal Hotel is the oldest ...
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 ...
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.
Gau (Fijian pronunciation:, also known as Ngau in English) [1] is an island belonging to Fiji's Lomaiviti archipelago. Located at 18.00° S and 179.30 °E, it covers an area of 136.1 square kilometres (52.5 square miles), with a total shoreline that measures 66.3 kilometres (41.2 miles) long, making it the fifth largest island in the Fijian ...
Matagi (pronounced [maˈtaŋi]), sometimes written Matangi, is an island the Vanua Levu Group in northern Fiji, situated 16°44 South 179° West. It is one of three tiny volcanic islands grouped to the east of Thurston Point on the island of Taveuni, the others being Qamea and Laucala. The horseshoe -shaped islet of 97 hectares (240 acres) lies ...
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 ...