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The Fiji Museum holds the most important collection of Fijian artifacts in the world. [10] The centrepiece of the museum's collection is the 13 metre-long double-hulled canoe, Ratu Finau . [ 11 ] Other important objects include the rudder from HMS Bounty , objects relating to cannibalism, as well as objects that record the impact of colonial ...
Mataika House (in Tamavua, Suva, Fiji) is the building that houses, and the informal name for, what is formally now called the Fiji Centre for Disease Control (Fiji CDC), and what used to be called the "Fiji Centre for Communicable Disease Control (FCCDC)" and before that the National Centre for Scientific Services for Virology and Vector Borne Diseases (NCSSVVBD), a subdivision of the Fiji ...
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.
The first Government House was built in the early 1880s (after the capital moved in Suva) that consisted of two small wood-frame buildings. [2] [3] [4] From 1970 to 1987, Government House was the official residence of the governor-general, and became the presidential residence in 1987 after two military coups resulted in the proclamation of a ...
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Thurston Gardens are the botanical gardens of Fiji. They used to be known as the Suva Botanical Gardens but its name was changed in honour of the fifth Governor of Fiji, Sir John Bates Thurston, who was Governor from February 1888 to March 1897. Thurston Gardens is located in central Suva, between Albert Park and the Government House.
The Ordinance also gave rise to a Mines Inspectorate, His Majesty's Colonial Mines Service recruiting Australian Frank T. M. White to set up a Mines Department in Suva. [4] By 1939 White (as Inspector of Mines) initiated a geological survey of Viti Levu, resulting in Fiji's first geological survey map, published in 1943.