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The WG Friendship Plaza Suva is a high-rise mixed-use skyscraper under construction in Suva, Fiji, currently serving as the tallest building in the country, as well as the tallest building in Oceania outside Australia and New Zealand. The tower was topped out in 2021 and is 112 meters (367 ft) tall, being divided into 28 floors.
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 ...
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 ...
Albert Park is located in Suva, the capital of Fiji. It was named after Prince Albert, the Consort of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, to whom the country was ceded in 1874. [citation needed] Albert Park can hold two rugby matches at one time. There is also a hockey pitch located in the middle of the ground with a grandstand and a cafeteria ...
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.
This list shows the population of the top 10 cities/towns in Fiji by population, by the most recent years each of them were counted. Suva, the capital, is the most populous urban place in the country, with a population of 100,237 as of 2024. [2] The remaining urban areas not included here can be found listed below this table.
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 ...
The stadium reopened in March 2013, with a rugby union game between the Fiji national team and Classic All Blacks. [7] In June 2022, the Fiji Sports Council announced HFC Bank as the new naming right sponsor of the stadium with the new name designated as HFC Bank Stadium. [8] The stadium also hosted the 2024 OFC Nations Cup in June 2024.