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The Dreketi River is located in the island of Vanua Levu in Fiji. It is 65 kilometers in length and the deepest river in Fiji. It is 65 kilometers in length and the deepest river in Fiji. It is navigable for small crafts for 35 kilometers from its mouth and provides access to large tracts of fertile land through which it passes.
None of the island's rivers are navigable by large vessels. There are also many well known rivers on Vanua levu. The first is the most dangerous, the Wainikoro river, known for its shark attacks. The second is the Dreketi river, the deepest river in Fiji.
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The Manawatū Estuary is an estuary at the mouth of the Manawatū River, near Foxton Beach in the lower North Island of New Zealand. It is a wetland of international significance as one of seven Ramsar sites in New Zealand. At approximately 250 hectares (620 acres), [2] the Manawatū Estuary is the largest estuary in the lower North Island. [3]
Keni Dakuidreketi is a former Fijian politician, who served as Minister for Youth, Employment Opportunities, and Minister for Sport in the interim Cabinet formed by Laisenia Qarase in the wake of the Fiji coup of 2000. [1]
Roko Tui is the title for the executive head of any one of Fiji’s 14 Provincial Councils. [1] Each province, called a "yasana", is administrated by a provincial council, which itself is subject to the Fijian Affairs Board, variously considered the “guardian” of the traditional Fijian administration system, amongst many other aspects of modern Fijian culture.
The others are Dreketi, Togo, Naiviivi, Vatusogosogo, and Waibulu. The islanders are noted for a particular delicacy called paileve, which is fermented in a pit. Also famous is the migration of "lairo" or red land crabs, which occurs near the full moon in November.
The present Roko Tui Dreketi is Ro Teimumu Vuikaba Tuisawau-Kepa, who was the Minister for Education in the Qarase government. She succeeded her late sister Ro Lady Lala Mara , Fiji's former First Lady, in 2004.