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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.
Map of Fiji showing Eastern division. The Eastern Division of Fiji (Hindi: फ़िजी का पूर्वी प्रभाग) is one of Fiji's four divisions. [1] It consists of Kadavu Province, Lau Province, Lomaiviti Province and Rotuma. The capital of the division is Levuka, [1] on the Ovalau island.
The city is located on the southeast coast of the island of Viti Levu, in Rewa Province, Central Division. In 1877, the capital of Fiji was moved to Suva from Levuka, the main European colonial settlement at the time, due to the restrictive geography and environs of the latter. The administration of the colony was transferred from Levuka to ...
Ovalau (pronounced ) is the sixth largest island in Fiji.It is located in Lomaiviti Archipelago.Situated at 17.70° South and 178.8° East, (60 km north east from the national capital Suva and 20 km off the east coast of Viti Levu), the island is about 13 kilometers long and 10 kilometers wide.
The company has its origins in Levuka, founded by George Patterson with his son’s Henry Patterson and Robert Patterson in 1924. Inter-island ferry operations began in 1924. By 2020, the company had more than 200 staff across Fiji.
Lasakau Village, Bau Island late 1800s with Viwa Island in background. Originally Bau island was occupied by the Butoni, a predatory tribe of sailors and traders. About 1760, the Bau chief Nailatikau seized Ulu-ni-vuaka and expelled the Butoni, who thenceforth were rovers, wandering to many parts of the Group establishing settlements at Lakeba ...
He held the traditional title of Tui Levuka. [3] [4] Prior to his appointment to the Senate, Rokotunaceva served as Assistant Minister for Education in the interim Cabinet formed by Laisenia Qarase in the wake of the 2000 Fijian coup d'état. [5] He held office till an elected government took power in September 2001.