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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.
Martha Kaplan, Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji, Duke University. Details on Fijian social structure and hierarchy. Asesela Ravuvu, A., The Fijian Way of Life. Suva, Fiji: University of the South Pacific, 1983. Man, Royal Anthropological Institute, 1901, p. 223.
Vaka i Taukei: The Fijian Way of Life, Suva: University of the South Pacific; Williams, Thomas; James Calvert; George Stringer Rose (1858). Fiji and the Fijians. Vol. 1, The islands and their inhabitants. London: Alexander Heylin. p. 266. OCLC 19529801
A real-life Moana adventure: Our family trip to Fiji followed in the footsteps of Disney star. Clio Wood. December 14, 2024 at 11:25 AM ... Clean and ideally located for Fiji’s capital, Suva ...
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.
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 story of Baker's death is the basis for Jack London's short story "The Whale Tooth". [7] [8]In 1983, the American malacologist Alan Solem named the genus Vatusila "after the Fijian tribe (located at the headwaters of the Sigatoka River) that killed and ate Rev. Thomas Baker, a Wesleyan missionary, on July 21, 1867."
People gathering at the wharf of Suva, Fiji, circa 1900 The British annexed Fiji in October 1874 and the labour trade in Pacific Islanders continued as before. In 1875, the year of the catastrophic measles epidemic, the chief medical officer in Fiji, Sir William MacGregor , listed a mortality rate of 540 out of every 1000 Islander labourers. [ 56 ]