island
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, which lies at the extreme northwestern end of the
Mamanuca Islands
The Mamanuca Islands () of Fiji are a volcanic archipelago lying to the west of Nadi and to the south of the Yasawa Islands. The group, a popular tourist destination, consists of about 20 islands, but about seven of these are covered by the ...
group.
Geography
It has an area of 9.7
hectare
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s (24
acre
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Places
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s) and was advertised as being for lease in April 2008 with a price of €9,000,000. In 2009 it was offered at auction but failed to sell at a top bid of A$1 million.
Ownership
Eori was for many years owned by real estate firm Pacific Islands Partnership Limited, which is in turn solely owned by Tim Manning's Chaylor Investments. Chaylor investor
Eric Rush
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held a 7 percent share in Eori specifically.
In 2009, Manning and Chaylor sold the island to investor
Graeme Hart
Graeme Richard Hart (born 1955) is a New Zealand billionaire businessman and the country's wealthiest person.LLC Eori Island Limited via his personal investment corporation,
Rank Group
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Ltd.
See also
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Desert island
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List of islands of Fiji
This is a list of islands of Fiji. Fiji is an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean.
It is split into 9 separate geographic island groups. The smallest is the Conway Reef Islands and Skerries, and the largest is the Vanua Levu Group.
Table of Island ...