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Lau Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Lau Islands comprise one of fourteen Provinces in Fiji, with its capital at Tubou, at the southern end of the island of Lakeba. Lauan villages remain very traditional, and the islands' inhabitants are renowned for their wood carving and masi paintings. Lakeba especially was a traditional meeting place between Tongans and Fijians. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lau_Islands   (731 words)

Fiji Guide: The Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Lakeba, with a population of about 2000 in eight villages, is the largest island in the Lau group, and politically the most important. Lakeba is irregularly oval in outline, shaped somewhat like a shark's tooth, with a tongue of land jutting out from the south coast. Of late Lakeba has been the subject of a thorough archaeological excavation which has revealed the presence of a massive fortification, built perhaps a thousand years ago as a defence against Tongan invaders. www.fijiguide.com /cgi-bin/fijicon.pl?16-lau.fij   (2431 words)

Wansolwara Online (USP) LAKEBA, LAU, May 4: Ratu Sir Kamisese, described widely as one the greatest leaders to come out of the South Pacific, was yesterday laid to rest in the chiefly village of Tubou. LAKEBA, LAU, May 2: Over 1000 visitors at the chiefly village of Tubou are receiving a taste of Lauan hospitality with huge feasts prepared for them daily. LAKEBA, LAU, May 2: The Vunirewa clan traditionally received the body of the former Prime Minister and President of Fiji, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, at the Tubou jetty yesterday. www.usp.ac.fj /journ/docs/news   (425 words)

Island Zone - Teivovo.com The young Lakeba team, many of whom are still at school, lost forward and knocked on too often. A tackle by Lakeba saw him lose the ball but the referee allowed the try because the tackler was offside. Meanwhile, Lakeba fielded their second team for a friendly game against the Fiji Deaf team, who are preparing for their World Cup next year. www.teivovo.com /island_zone/2001_news/08_21_day2.html   (624 words)

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) LAKEBA, Fiji (Reuters) - Conch shells that have boomed across Fiji for six days of mourning fell silent today as Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, the South Pacific nation's founding father, was buried by a barefoot bishop. Thousands of mourners crammed onto tiny Lakeba island as Mara, Fiji's first and longest-serving prime minister, was buried on Monday in a sacred burial ground alongside his warrior ancestors. Fiji Catholic Archbishop Petero Mataca walked barefoot at the head of a procession as soldiers dressed in scarlet tunics and sulu skirts carried Mara's flag-draped coffin along a path of decorated tapa mats, or cloth pounded from tree bark. www.buzztracker.org /2004/05/03/cache/176207.html   (534 words)

Island Zone - Teivovo.com Moturiki beat Lakeba 13-0 and Gau defeated Vanua Balavu 16-8 in the Island Zone play-offs Thursday to advance to Friday’s semi-finals at Suva’s Buckhurst Park. Lakeba, who finished last in Pool B, tried desperately to score their first points of the tournament but were held back by Moturiki. Struggling with the new rule, Lakeba made numerous mistakes in the tackle – coming in at the wrong side were caught off-side on numerous occasions. www.teivovo.com /island_zone/2001_news/08_23_day4.html   (628 words)

HAGGAI INSTITUTE - Advancing Leadership Skills Since 1969 Alumna Mereoni Kiti Motukiliu who loves the Lord and is determined to lead her people in Lakeba to Him, is profiled by Bill Jenkins, an ex-newspaperman who lives in Maui. In fact, Lakeba is also the major attraction of Lau and its hundred islands with traditional culture that have now begun to draw in tourists. Mereoni has a Bachelor’s Degree in Education and Geography from the University of the South Pacific, a post- graduate diploma in Education, and six units toward her Master's degree; she is awaiting approval of her thesis. www.haggai-institute.com /News/NewsItem.asp?ItemID=744   (664 words)

Enele Ma'afu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) The brother and official representative of King George Tupou I, who wished to keep him away from Tonga as a potential rival for the throne, Ma'afu established himself at Lakeba as leader of the Tongan community in the Lau Islands in 1848. He maintained his claim, however, to be the overseer of the Tongan population, and when the Tui Nayau raised the Tongan flag over Lakeba, Ma'afu took control of the Lau archipelago on the pretext that its Paramount Chief had declared it be Tongan territory, rather than Fijian. Lauan chiefs met in Lakeba and February 1869, and granted Ma'afu the title of Tui Lau, or King of Lau, Levuka, and Ovalau. www.worldhistory.com /wiki/E/Enele-Ma'afu.htm   (510 words)

Guardian Unlimited Travel | Countries | To infinity and beyond It was through Lau that the first missionaries entered the country, and one of the main islands, Lakeba, has traditionally provided Fiji with many of its leaders and high chiefs. Apparently, one of the villages on Lakeba still practises shark-calling. The next morning, after a breakfast of half a loaf of bread and a mug of impossibly sweet tea delivered to my bunk by one of the crew, I went up on deck to see land on the horizon. travel.guardian.co.uk /countries/story/0,7451,1411051,00.html   (2267 words)

Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - Fijians urged to unite as tribute to former PM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) About 4,000 people have gathered on Lakeba for the last stage of a state funeral that began last Wednesday. A combined Methodist and Catholic funeral service was conducted in the church on Lakeba that Ratu Mara's grandfather built almost 70 years ago. The leader of the Fiji Labour Party, Mahendra Chaudhry, who was removed as prime minister in the 2000 coup is attending the burial service on Lakeba along with the current Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase. www.abc.net.au /asiapacific/news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_1100070.htm   (248 words)

[No title] The name of Lakeba has given you sensitivity and appreciation for the finer and deeper things in life. Because you have high ideals and are a principled person, you have been disillusioned and disappointed in people on many occasions and have experienced much aloneness. Although the name Lakeba creates an interest in the deeper aspects of life, we emphasize that it causes a restless intensity that defies relaxation. www.kabalarians.com /male/lakeba.htm   (438 words)

The birth of Christianity - Fiji Times Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) The two, who were Tahitians, did not stay for long in Lakeba because the villagers did not agree with the new system of believing in a supernatural God and refused this new God to take the place of their Fijian gods. Arriving, again in Lakeba, the two did not meet the hostility the Tahitians experienced and history says that this was because the two were accompanied by a Tongan envoy of the King of Tonga. However, the two were at first discouraged by the lack of support for Christianity shown by the villagers. www.fijitimes.com /story.aspx?id=32262   (577 words)

STUDENT SECTION:Embassy of Fiji   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) One crew member died, but the ship carried a deadlier cargo which was to infest the Fiji group under the name "Lila Balavu" a strain of Asian cholera. A confederacy of native kingdoms was first mooted and Fiji's first constitution was drawn up and signed by seven independent chiefs of Fiji, representing the states of Bau, Lakeba, Rewa, Bua, Cakaudrove, Macuata and Naduri, each to form part of the General Assembly. Cakobau was elected president for two years in a row, and when Ma'afu sought the seat in the third year, the Fijian chiefs refused to be governed by a Tongan and withdrew causing the confederacy to collapse. www.fijiembassy.org /student.html   (3604 words)

History of Fiji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia First visit from an American exploring expedition commanded by Captain John Wilkes. Prince Enele Ma'afu of Tonga invades Lau, establishing himself in Lakeba by 1848. Trading store of United States Consul and settler, John Brown Williams, accidentally destroyed by stray cannon fire and subsequently looted by Fijian natives. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Fiji   (1013 words)

ABC Asia Pacific - News - Mourners gather for Fiji funeral Four-thousand people, including a large delegation from Tonga, have gathered on the Fiji island of Lakeba for the last stage of a state funeral that began last Wednesday for late president and prime minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. The cemetry also contains the tombs of Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna who was the mentor of Ratu Mara; the tomb of Ma'afu, who was the first Tui Lau and the Tongan conquerer; and it is the resting place of the father of Ratu Mara. The Crown Prince of Tonga has flown into Lakeba to join his mother the queen at today's burial. www.buzztracker.org /2004/05/03/cache/176212.html   (228 words)

Historical Flags (Fiji)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) On May 8th 1865 seven tribes united: Bau, Rewa, Cakaudrove, Macuata, Naduri and Lakeba, naming themselves the United Tribes of Fiji. This information is built on contributions from Jaume Ollé and Mark Sensen, 2-3 June 1997 quoting an article in Vexilla Nostra no.164 written by Rene van den Maagdenburg. The presidency was on a rotating basis, and in 1867 the chief of Lakeba would become president. flagspot.net /flags/fj_his.html   (646 words)

Oceania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Not a continent, but nevertheless the largest spread of territory on the planet, comprising the Pacific Ocean, and all its innumerable islands. Currently this has: Australia, Easter Island, Bau (Fiji), Bougainville, Bua, Cakau, Fiji, Guam, Hawaii, Huahine, Kauai, Kiribati, Lakeba, Macuata, Magareva, the Maori, Mariana Isl. Attempts were made to unify the entire region 1867-74, but in 1874 the area came under British authority. www.hostkingdom.net /oceania.html   (1593 words)

Lakeba Pine Scheme established by the late Tui Nayau - Fiji Government Online Lakeba Pine Scheme established by the late Tui Nayau - Fiji Government Online Lakeba Pine Scheme established by the late Tui Nayau The Lakeba Pine Scheme is situated at Wainiyabia not www.fiji.gov.fj /cgi-bin/cms/exec/view.cgi/26/2374   (297 words)

History of Fiji Islands and Fijian Bank Notes - 1872 to date Science tells a different story with the island of Lakeba (in the Lau Island group) located between Viti Levu and Tonga being the first base of Polynesians and Melanesians who travelled south and settled here some 3,000 years ago. Ancient carbon-dated pottery found on Lakeba dates back to about 1500BC. During the centuries leading up to the arrival of the whiteman and following the arrival of the first Missionaries in 1835 horrific stories of massacres and brother killing brother were common. www.fijibure.com /fijinotes.htm   (1288 words)

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ObesityHelp.com - Profile for Lakeba Clark I told her I had done all her requirements and I thought I would have a date when I left this office today. Dr. Estakhri, took my hand, looked into my eyes with the upmost compassion and said, "Lakeba your will have the surgery it not about approval but when you will have it". I knew right then and there that I wanted Dr. Estakhri to do my surgery. www.obesityhelp.com /morbidobesity/members/profile.php?N=Clark979065881   (1920 words)

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Suva Fiji Location and Directions Corner of Princess Rd & Lakeba St Suva The Suva Fiji Temple is located about 220 km away from the Nadi International Airport. Suva is located in the eastern part of the country, and the temple is located on the corner of Lakeba Street and Princese Road. lds.org /temples/location/1,11219,1916-1-126-2,00.html   (63 words)

Traveljournals.net - Lakeba, Eastern, Fiji - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts Traveljournals.net - Lakeba, Eastern, Fiji - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts / Explore / Fiji / Locations / Lakeba, Eastern Maps and coordinates for Lakeba, Eastern, Fiji are approximative and not valid for navigation. www.traveljournals.net /explore/fiji/map/m1750977/lakeba.html   (71 words)

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