Yasawa, also called Assawa and Ysava, is the northernmost large island of the
Yasawa Group, an
archipelago
An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
Examples of archipelagos include: the Indonesian Archi ...
in
Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
's
Western Division. Located at
17.00° South and 177.23° East, it covers an area of . It has a maximum altitude of
above sea level
Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''.
The comb ...
. The population was 1,120 in 1983.
The islands are served by the
Yasawa Island Airport.
References
Ba Province
Islands of Fiji
Yasawa Islands
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