1. Te Puna Web Directory Pacific Regional Fiji History Web Directory Pacific Regional Fiji History See also History@ http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

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11. Fiji History fiji history overview of historic events. World66 the travel guide While fijihas taken a less active role in regional affairs since the 1987 coups http://www.world66.com/australiaandpacific/fiji/history

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12. Fiji History & Fiji Culture | IExplore fiji history The first inhabitants of fiji came from Melanesia, geared towardsthe development of regional alliances, such as the South Pacific Forum. http://www.iexplore.com/dmap/Fiji/History

FORBES' #1 ADVENTURE TRAVEL SITE 5 YEARS IN A ROW TIME MAGAZINE TOP 50 Keyword Search: Home Trip Finder Travel Guides Community ... My iExplore advertisement Home Travel Guides Australia and the South Pacific Fiji History E-mail this page Fiji Travel Guide View Trips to Fiji Browse Fiji Photos Read Fiji Journals Fiji Questions and Answers Find a Fiji Travel Buddy Australia and the South Pacific Overview Overview Tours Where to Go Activities ... Shopping Fiji History Sponsored Listings Add your listing adsonar_pid=3019;adsonar_ps=370666;adsonar_zw=540;adsonar_zh=220;adsonar_jv='ads.adsonar.com'; For the next 17 years after independence, the moderate conservative Alliance Party governed without interruption. Foreign policy was (and still is) broadly pro-Western and geared towards the development of regional alliances, such as the South Pacific Forum. As a member of the Forum, Fiji, along with its small neighbors, vigorously campaigned against French nuclear testing. It is also a member of the Commonwealth, from which it was temporarily suspended in 1987 and again in 2000. The 1987 suspension followed the general election that same year, which removed the Alliance Party from office. The poll brought to power a coalition between the main ethnic Indian party, the National Federation Party, led by Marendra Chaudhry (see below), and the newly-formed Labor Party, which drew support from the growing multiracial trade union movement. The new Government had a majority of Indian ministers, which proved too much for many nationalist native Fijians (referred to as

13. Te Puna Web Directory > Pacific > Regional > Fiji > History Web Directory Pacific regional fiji history An article coveringfiji s geography; early fiji staging area for conflict; war and fijian culture http://webdirectory.natlib.govt.nz/dir/en/pacific/regional/fiji/history/

Web Directory Pacific Regional Fiji History See also: History@ Come meet the Banabans Provides an historical overview, information on Banaban culture and environmental issues, a bibliography, latest news items and links to similar sites. Describes Banaba and Rabi Islands Islands. Discusses issues surrounding the move of Banabans to Rabi Island because of the consequences of phosphate mining on Banaba (Ocean Island). Fiji : the warrior archipelago An article covering: Fiji's geography; early Fiji: staging area for conflict; war and Fijian culture; the weapons of war; the "pleasures" of war. A short bibliography is included. Fijigirmit.org Fiji Girmit memorial site dedicated to the endurance and the struggles of the Fiji Indian indentured labourers who helped to build the sugar industry in the Fiji Islands. Includes historical facts, bibliography and newsletter. Just Pacific Articles by Rod Ewins on anthropology, art, culture, society and sociology in Fiji and the Pacific. Also includes bibliographies (including a bibliography on the Fiji Coup 2000) and links to related sites. Voyaging canoes of Fiji Website of Wayne E. Sanday. About Fijian sailing canoes, their feats in legends, their superior design, and their critical impact on Pacific history.

14. Te Puna Web Directory > Pacific > Regional > Fiji > General And Reference Web Directory Pacific regional fiji General and Reference Provides abrief description and history of fiji, including aspects of the history of http://webdirectory.natlib.govt.nz/dir/en/pacific/regional/fiji/general-and-refe

Web Directory Pacific Regional Fiji General and Reference See also: General and Reference@ About the Fiji Islands The official Fiji tourist site developed by the Fiji Visitors Bureau. Provides information about Fiji, accommodation, activities and transportation. Commonwealth Secretariat. Fiji Islands General information about Fiji: Key facts; geography; society; economy; constitution and politics. Country profile Fiji General information about Fiji including an overview, politics, the media, Fiji's national anthem and a timeline of historical events. Fiji Islands : the small guide to a tropical paradise Ian Heydon's alphabetically arranged travellers guide which includes personal observations. Fiji map server Online mapping service of Fiji Islands, land information and climate, using Wiki software from Tiki Community Portal which offers, images, articles and blogs. Requires user id and password. Fiji Museum! Fiji Lonely Planet tourist guide to Fiji. Finding Fiji A page from the web site South Pacific Organizer. This page, which gives general information on Fiji, is abridged from the 6th edition of: Fiji, by David Stanley, published in the series Moon handbooks: Emeryville, Calif. : Avalon Travel, 2001. GEsource world guide. Fiji

15. Regional: Oceania: Fiji: Society And Culture: History - Open Site regional Oceania fiji Society and Culture history Open Site. http://open-site.org/Regional/Oceania/Fiji/Society_and_Culture/History/

Open Site The Open Encyclopedia Project home submit content become an editor the entire directory only in Society_and_Culture/History Top Regional Oceania Fiji ... Society and Culture : History Overview Melanesian and Polynesian peoples settled the Fijian islands some 3,500 years ago. European traders and missionaries arrived in the first half of the 19th century, and the resulting disruption led to increasingly serious wars among the native Fijian confederacies. One Ratu (chief), Cakobau, gained limited control over the western islands by the 1850s, but the continuing unrest led him and a convention of chiefs to cede Fiji unconditionally to the British in 1874. The pattern of colonialism in Fiji during the following century was similar to that in many other British possessions: the pacification of the countryside, the spread of plantation agriculture, and the introduction of Indian indentured labor. Many traditional institutions, including the system of communal land ownership, were maintained. Fiji soldiers fought alongside the Allies in the Second World War, gaining a fine reputation in the tough Solomon Islands campaign. The United States and other Allied countries maintained military installations in Fiji during the war, but Fiji itself never came under attack. In April 1970, a constitutional conference in London agreed that Fiji should become a fully sovereign and independent nation within the Commonwealth. Fiji became independent on October 10, 1970. Post-independence politics came to be dominated by the Alliance Party of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. The Indian-led opposition won a majority of House seats in 1977, but failed to form a government out of concern that indigenous Fijians would not accept Indo-Fijian leadership. In April 1987, a coalition led by Dr. Timoci Bavadra, an ethnic Fijian supported by the Indo-Fijian community, won the general election and formed Fiji's first majority Indian government, with Dr. Bavadra serving as Prime Minister. Less than a month later, Dr. Bavadra was forcibly removed from power during a military coup led by Lt. Col. Sitiveni Rabuka on May 14, 1987.

16. Regional: Oceania: Vanuatu: Society And Culture: History - Open Site regional Oceania Vanuatu Society and Culture history Open Site. During the 1860s, planters in Australia, fiji, New Caledonia, and the Samoa http://open-site.org/Regional/Oceania/Vanuatu/Society_and_Culture/History/

Open Site The Open Encyclopedia Project home submit content become an editor the entire directory only in Society_and_Culture/History Top Regional Oceania Vanuatu ... Society and Culture : History Overview The prehistory of Vanuatu is obscure; archaeological evidence supports the commonly held theory that peoples speaking Austronesian languages first came to the islands some 4,000 years ago. Pottery fragments have been found dating back to 1300-1100 B.C. The first island in the Vanuatu group discovered by Europeans was Espiritu Santo, when in 1606 the Portuguese explorer, Pedro Fernandez De Quiros, spied what he thought was a southern continent. Europeans did not return until 1768, when Louis Antoine de Bougainville rediscovered the islands. In 1774, Captain Cook named the islands the New Hebrides, a name that lasted until independence. In 1825, trader Peter Dillon's discovery of sandalwood on the island of Erromango began a rush that ended in 1830 after a clash between immigrant Polynesian workers and indigenous Melanesians. During the 1860s, planters in Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, and the Samoa Islands, in need of laborers, encouraged a long-term indentured labor trade called "blackbirding." At the height of the labor trade, more than one-half the adult male population of several of the Islands worked abroad. It was at this time that missionaries, both Catholic and Protestant, arrived on the islands. Settlers also came, looking for land on which to establish cotton plantations. When international cotton prices collapsed, they switched to coffee, cocoa, bananas, and, most successfully, coconuts. Initially, British subjects from Australia made up the majority, but the establishment of the Caledonian Company of the New Hebrides in 1882 soon tipped the balance in favor of French subjects. By the turn of the century, the French outnumbered the British two to one.

17. Fiji - History The executive authority of fiji is vested in His Excellency the Deputy PrimeMinister, Minister for fijian Affairs regional Development; Bulewa, Hon. http://www.appf.org.pe/countries/fiji/executiv.htm

The Executive Authority of Fiji The executive authority of Fiji is vested in His Excellency the President and exercisable by him or by Cabinet or any Minister authorised by Cabinet. The Cabinet consist of members of Parliament chosen from the party commanding a majority in the House of Representatives. The President, acting in his own deliberate judgment, appoints as Prime Minister the Fijian member of the House of Representatives who appears to him best able to command the support of the majority of the members of that House. The function of the Cabinet is to advise the President in matters of the government of Fiji an dthe Cabinet, collectively, is responsible to Parliament for any advice given to the President by or under the general authority of the Cabinet and for all things done by or under the authority of any Minister in the execution of his office. Cabinet's decisions are carried into effect by individual Ministers. Every Minister is allowed considerable discretionary power in the ordinary affairs of a department. Government Ministers and the Cabinet Cabinet Ministers: Rabuka, Hon. Major-Gen. S.L. OBE(Mil), MSD, O.StJ

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THE PETROLEUM POTENTIAL OF FIJI Author : Jonathan A. Rodd TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY HISTORY OF EXPLORATION GEOLOGY Regional Tectonic Setting ... Entire Document SUMMARY Fiji forms part of the South-West Pacific island arc system which marks the boundary between the Indo-Australia and Pacific plates. The territorial waters cover almost 1.3 million km² and contain two shallow-water Tertiary sedimentary basins. Bligh Water Basin, covering some 9500 km², has sediment thicknesses in excess of 5km and has excellent potential for hydrocarbons. Bau Waters Basin is also prospective, having a shallow-water area of about 1600km², with sediment thicknesses up to 4km. Fiji lies on the same regional play trend of Miocene reefs which produce oil in Irian Jaya, Indonesia and gas/condensate in offshore Papua New Guinea. Indeed Fiji's basins have many similarities with the oil and gas producing, arc-related basins of Southeast Asia. Source rocks of Oligocene, Miocene and Pliocene age are exposed onshore in Fiji and have been encountered by drilling in the offshore basins. An oil seep in Bligh Water Basin and oil and gas shows in wells provide evidence that hydrocarbons have been generated in the basins. Modelling studies indicate peak oil generation to be at about 2.6km below sea floor.

19. Fiji Culture, Fiji Information, Fiji History, Fiji Facts, Fiji Islands Culture Today, fiji plays a major role in regional affairs and is recognized as the focalpoint of the South Pacific. © 2005 South Pacific Holidays. http://www.tropicalfiji.com/about_fiji/Culture/

Start About Fiji Culture : Overview Visiting From: Not Selected ( Change About Fiji Resorts Romance ... Service Guide Overview Culture Overview Pre-History Legends Etiquette ... Say it in Fijian A ccording to Fijian legend, the great chief Lutunasobasoba led his people across the seas to the new land of Fiji . Most authorities agree that people came into the Pacific from Southeast Asia via Indonesia. Here the Melanesians and the Polynesians mixed to create a highly developed society long before the arrival of the Europeans. T he European discoveries of the Fiji group were accidental. The first of these discoveries was made in 1643 by the Dutch explorer, Abel Tasman and English navigators, including Captain James Cook who sailed through in 1774, and made further explorations in the 18th century. M ajor credit for the discovery and recording of the islands went to Captain William Bligh who sailed through Fiji after the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789. The first Europeans to land and live among the Fijians were shipwrecked sailors and runaway convicts from the Australian penal settlements. Sandalwood traders and missionaries came by the mid 19th century. C annibalism practiced in Fiji at that time quickly disappeared as missionaries gained influence. When Ratu Seru Cakobau accepted Christianity in 1854, the rest of the country soon followed and tribal warfare came to an end.

20. Fiji : About Fiji - Culture - Pre-History According to RA Derrick in his history of fiji (Government Press, Suva, 1946), In former times there are many regional styles of decoration. http://www.tropicalfiji.com/about_fiji/Culture/PreHistory.asp

Start About Fiji Culture : Pre-History Visiting From: Not Selected ( Change About Fiji Resorts Romance ... Service Guide Pre-History Culture Overview Pre-History Legends Etiquette ... Say it in Fijian T he most remarkable aspect of Fijian pre-history is its antiquity. It is now known that people had reached the Fijian archipelago as early as 2000 years before the birth of Christ. Considering the fact that the Vikings, acknowledged as Europe's greatest sailors, didn't reach America until three thousand years later, or the fact that Columbus made his famous voyage only some five hundred years ago, the Fijian achievement must be seen as extraordinary. T A picture emerges of these "Lapita" people. Sailors, adventurers, good navigators and consummate craftsmen. The trail of their pots, hooks, obsidian cutting tools and ornaments leads down from New Britain through some of the outer islands fringing the Solomons and Vanuatu, suggesting that perhaps they were not powerful enough to force settlements on the bigger islands which were already supporting large populations of people. I n this classic difference between the two groups we see the racial characteristics of what was later to be defined as Melanesian and Polynesian stock. The Melanesians were to retain their grip on the western island of the South Pacific but it can be fairly assumed that a great deal of the "Lapita" blood found its way into its main stream.

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