The Vanua Levu Group is 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 northern
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 ...
. It takes its name from its predominant island,
Vanua Levu
Vanua Levu (pronounced ), formerly known as Sandalwood Island, is the second largest island of Fiji. Located to the north of the larger Viti Levu, the island has an area of and a population of 135,961 .
Geology
Fiji lies in a tectonically ...
. Among the other island in the group, the most important is
Taveuni
Taveuni (pronounced ) is the third-largest island in Fiji, after Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, with a total land area of . The cigar-shaped island, a massive shield volcano which rises from the floor of the Pacific Ocean, is situated to the east of ...
. Other islands in the group include
Laucala
Laucala (pronounced ) is one of a triplet of small islands that lie to the east of Thurston Point on the island of Taveuni in Fiji. The privately owned islands are the site of the Laucala Resort.
The total land area of the main island is . It is ...
,
Matagi
The are traditional winter hunters of the Tōhoku region of northern Japan, most famously today in the Ani area in Akita Prefecture, which is known for the Akita dogs. Afterwards, it spread to the Shirakami-Sanchi forest between Akita and Aomor ...
,
Namena Lala,
Qamea
Qamea (pronounced ) is one of three islets lying to the east of Thurston Point on the island of Taveuni, Fiji, the others being Matagi and Laucala.
Geography
Qamea lies some 2.5 kilometers east of Thurston Point and covers an area of 34 square k ...
,
Rabi Rabi may refer to:
Places
* Rábí, a castle in the Czech Republic
* Rabí, a village in the Czech Republic
* Räbi, a village in Estonia
* Rabi, Panchthar, a village development committee in Nepal
* Rabi Island, a volcanic island in northern F ...
,
Vorovoro Vorovoro is an island in the province of Macuata in the Vanua Levu Group of northern Fiji, 40 minutes away from the town of Labasa by boat.
Vorovoro island is inhabited by the Mali tribe, a traditional Fijian tribe which also has villages nearby ...
and
Yadua Tabu
Yadua Taba (pronounced ) is a volcanic islet in Fiji, an outlier to the northern island of Vanua Levu, and immediately south of the larger island Yadua. Yadua Taba covers an area of 0.7 square kilometres and has a maximum elevation of 100 meter ...
. They have an aggregate area of , with a total population of 140,016 at the 1996
census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...
, the last held.
The Vanua Levu Group is coextensive with Fiji's
Northern Division, one of four into which the country is divided for
local government
Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-loca ...
purposes. Together with the remote
Lau Islands
The Lau Islands aka little Tonga (also called the Lau Group, the Eastern Group, the Eastern Archipelago) of Fiji are situated in the southern Pacific Ocean, just east of the Koro Sea. Of this chain of about sixty islands and islets, about thirty a ...
, they form the
Tovata Confederacy, one of three
chiefly hierarchies.
.
Archipelagoes of Fiji
Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean
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