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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 hotel [4] in the South Pacific still operating ...
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.
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]
The United Kingdom refused to annex Fiji, claiming to have ascertained from Cakobau's fellow chiefs that he was not universally accepted as King of Fiji and that he did not have the authority to cede the islands. 1865: Confederacy of Fijian chiefs formed. 1867: Threats to shell Levuka from an American warship.
Name Image Location Criteria Year Description; Levuka Historical Port Town: Eastern Division. 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 Fiji, ceded to the British in 1874.
Levuka, Fiji's former capital, is the largest of 24 towns and villages on the island, and is the only urban area in Lomaiviti. [3] All settlements are coastal, except Lovoni in the interior of the island. [4] Ovalau is characterized by its rugged topography, [2] with little flat land apart from the Lovoni Valley in the centre of the island. The ...
The largest town, with a population of 1,131 in 2007, is Levuka, which was Fiji's first modern town and served as the capital from 1871 to 1877. History [ edit ]
The Catholic mission in Cawaci was firmly established by 1893 when the Catechist School was established having moved from Loreto. In the early 1990s the Fiji Archdiocese sold a small portion of the land in Cicia to the Government who needed to relocate their Public Works Department (PWD) section in Levuka as its present site was congested.