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In 1969 LDS Primary School began meeting in the Suva Chapel and later moved to its permanent location in Samabula area. Fiji Primary In 1975, the church-owned Fiji Technical College, now called the Church College of Fiji was opened. The first stake in Fiji, the Suva Fiji Stake was organized 12 June 1983, with Inosi Naga as president. A stake ...
Australian journalist Thomas John McMahon visited Fiji in 1921 and provided his own description of the Grand Pacific Hotel in his profile of the island nation that was published in The Sydney Mail: One thing Suva can boast of is the possession of the most palatial hotel in the Southern Hemisphere. It was here that the Prince of Wales was ...
Offshore, stringing around the south, east and then away to the north, is the Great Astrolabe Reef, a large barrier reef that is one of Fiji's premier scuba diving resorts. A 7,800 hectares (19,000 acres) area covering the interior of the eastern part of the island is the East Kadavu Important Bird Area .
The Reserve Bank of Fiji Building is a high-rise office building in Suva, Fiji, standing at 65 metres (213 ft) tall with 17 floors, currently serving as the headquarters of the Reserve Bank of Fiji (RBF) since its completion in 1985. [2]
[citation needed] Fiji's largest cattle ranch, with 7000 head of cattle on 70 square kilometres (17,000 acres), is in Yaqara, midway between Tavua and Rakiraki. The island of Viti Levu is the only known home of one of the world's largest insects, the Giant Fijian long-horned beetle. The island is susceptible to the effects of climate change.
The Suva Fiji Temple is the 91st operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). [3] [4] The intent to build the temple was announced on April 5, 1998, by church president Gordon B. Hinckley during the church's general conference. [5] The temple is the first to be built in Fiji. [6]
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.
Built in the late 1930s as the seat of the colonial administration, the Art Deco buildings today house the Prime Minister of Fiji's offices, the High Court, and several government ministries. It is also the seat of the Parliament of Fiji since 2014, having previously been the seat of Fiji's parliament from independence in 1970 until the 1987 coups.