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THE REPUBLIC OF FIJI ISLANDS.
By Mark on January 8, 2009
This is a post about the kingdom of Fiji in the pacific ocean, near Australia and New Zealand. I have always been interested in writing about these island, as to me they are extraordinary places to visit. Tiny little islands with small populations living and surving to keep their own cultures moving forward. Unlike the large countries of today, where unfortunately their identity’s don’t appear that important, it appears to be more important to work together with many other countries. These tiny islands continue to keep and show their culture whenever it is possible to do so, well done to them and keep up the good work.
Below are some satellite image pictures and videos to do with Fiji.
This is a satellite image taken from Google Earth of the Fijian islands and her neighbours in the Pacific ocean.
This is another satellite image taken from Google Earth of a larger scale of the Fijian islands and her neighbours.
This is a larger scale satellite image of the main island of Fiji,Viti Levu, with the capital of Suva taken from Google Earth.
This is a satellite image of Fiji’s second largest island, Vanua Levu, taken from Google Earth.
Fiji is a country comprimising a group of islands that are situated in the Melanasian archipelago of the south-west Pacific Ocean. Fiji is mainly two large islands with another 104 populated islands and 522 islet’s or smaller islands that are uninhabited.
Fiji is around 400 kilometers or 248.6 miles from a plate boundary, but they are volcanic, as well as mountains and rain forests. The climate is usually hot, but not unpleasant. The islands unfortunately are placed in a hurricane belt and so they get effected by Tornadoes.
The economy is mainly based on agriculture and sugar is the main product, but fishing, forestry, gold mining and tourism are also important to Fiji.
This is the national anthem of Fiji taken from Youtube.
The history of these islands dates back to 1643 when Abel Tasman visited the islands. Then in 1774 Captain James Cook landed in Fiji. In the 19th century, Fiji was known for inter-tribal wars and cannibalism. In 1874 Fiji became a British Crowned Colony. To learn more about Fiji , please refer to Wikipedia at the bottom of this post.
Here is a relaxing video of Fiji and her beaches taken from Youtube. enjoy this short video.
This is a more indepth video showing superb pictures of Fiji mainly on land taken from Youtube, enjoy.
- Learn about Fiji on Wikipedia:
- Learn about Suva on Wikipedia:
- Find Fiji on Google Maps:
- Find Suva on Google Maps:
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Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.
9:54 pm on April 4th, 2009
HI,
FIJI IS NOT A KINGDOM BUT A REPUBLIC WITH A PRESIDENT,
IT IS CALLED THE REPUBIC OF FIJI ISLANDS.
3:44 am on April 5th, 2009
Thanks for the reply, I took my information from sources and that was what I came up with, but I do have to agree with you that I did wonder if it was a republic so thanks for that I shall edit the title now. Best regards Mark.
11:01 am on May 1st, 2010
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