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Lau Islands, the Glossary

The Lau Islands (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.^[1]

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Archipelagoes of Fiji

Akapusi Qera

Akapusi Qera (born 24 April 1984) is a Fijian professional rugby union player.

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Apisai Naikatini

Apisai Namata Naikatini (born 4 April 1985) is a Fijian rugby union footballer.

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Apisai Tauyavuca

Apisai Tauyavuca (born 1 April 1993 in Suva, Fiji) is a Fijian rugby union player who previously played for the Houston SaberCats in Major League Rugby (MLR).

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Arthur Maurice Hocart (26 April 1883, in Etterbeek, Belgium – 9 March 1939, in Cairo, Egypt) was an anthropologist best known for his eccentric and often far-seeing works on Polynesia, Melanesia, and Sri Lanka.

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Asaeli Tikoirotuma

Asaeli Tikoirotuma (born 24 June 1986) is a Fijian rugby union player.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Bau (island)

Bau (pronounced) is a small island in Fiji, off the east coast of the main island of Viti Levu.

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Bill Cavubati

Bill Cavubati (born 21 July 1970) is a former professional rugby union player.

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Bishop Museum

The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawaii State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport and martial art.

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Cabinet of Fiji

The Cabinet of Fiji is a Government body of Ministers appointed by the Prime Minister of Fiji and responsible to the Parliament of Fiji.

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Cakaudrove Province

Cakaudrove is one of fourteen provinces of Fiji, and one of three based principally on the northern island of Vanua Levu, occupying the south-eastern third of the island and including the nearby islands of Taveuni, Rabi, Kioa, and numerous other islands in the Vanua Levu Group.

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Capital city

A capital city or just capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational division, usually as its seat of the government.

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Carbonate

A carbonate is a salt of carbonic acid,, characterized by the presence of the carbonate ion, a polyatomic ion with the formula.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Cicia

Cicia is a Fijian island of the Lau Group.

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Constitution

A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed.

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Coral island

A coral island is a type of island formed from coral detritus and associated organic material.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.

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Enele Maʻafu

ʻEnele Maʻafuʻotuʻitonga, commonly known as Maʻafu, (circa 1816 — 6 February 1881) was a Pacific islander who held important titles in two countries in the Pacific.

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Eroni Loganimoce

Eroni Loganimoce (born October 6, 1930, date of death unknown) was a Fijian cricketer.

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Eroni Mawi

Eroni Cama Talemaisolomoni Mawi (born 6 February 1996) is a Fijian rugby player for Saracens in England's Premiership Rugby and the Fijian national team; he previously played for Fijian Latui in Global Rapid Rugby.

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Esala Teleni

Commodore Esala Teleni (born circa 1958 - died 28 February 2020) was a Fijian naval officer, who served the military-backed interim government as Commissioner of the Fiji Police Force from 1 July 2007 to mid-2010.

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Father of the Nation

The Father of the Nation is an honorific title given to a person considered the driving force behind the establishment of a country, state, or nation.

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Fiji

Fiji (Viti,; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. Lau Islands and Fiji are Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean.

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Fiji Times

The Fiji Times is a daily English-language newspaper published in Suva, Fiji.

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Filipe Bole

Filipe Nagera Bole CBE, CF (23 August 1936 – 19 June 2019) was a Fijian politician who hailed from the village of Mualevu on the island of Vanua Balavu in the Lau Group.

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Henry Qiodravu

Anare Qiodravu Rawaico (born 8 February 1977, in Suva) is a Fijian rugby union player.

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I. L. Bula

Ilikena Lasarusa Talebulamainavaleniveivakabulaimainakulalakebalau (born 15 November 1921, date of death unknown) was a Fijian cricketer who played nine first-class matches for Fiji between 1947–48 and 1953–54.

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Iliesa Keresoni

Iliesa Keresoni (born 27 January 1987 in Fiji) is a Fijian rugby union footballer.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.

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Jioji Kotobalavu

Jioji Kotobalavu is a former Fijian civil servant who served as chief executive in the Prime Minister's office under five Prime Ministers.

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Joeli Veitayaki

Joeli Veitayaki (born 12 January 1967 in Matuku, Fiji) is a Fijian former rugby union player.

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Jonati Mavoa

Jonati Malamala Mavoa (12 April 1920 – 16 June 1985) was a Fijian civil servant and politician.

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Kameli Ratuvou

Kameli Ratuvou (born 6 November 1983) is a Fijian rugby union player.

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Kamisese Mara

Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, (6 May 1920 – 18 April 2004) was a Fijian politician who served as Chief Minister from 1967 to 1970, when Fiji gained its independence from the United Kingdom, and, apart from one brief interruption in 1987, as the first Prime Minister from 1970 to 1992.

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Koila Nailatikau

Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau is a Fijian lawyer, who has served as a diplomat and politician.

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Koro Sea

The Koro Sea or Sea of Koro is a sea in the Pacific Ocean between Viti Levu island, Fiji to the west and the Lau Islands to the east, surrounded by the islands of the Fijian archipelago.

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Laisenia Qarase

Laisenia Qarase (pronounced; 4 February 1941 – 21 April 2020) was a Fijian politician.

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Lakeba

Lakeba (pronounced) is an island in Fiji’s Southern Lau Archipelago; the provincial capital of Lau is located here.

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Lala Sukuna

Ratu Sir Josefa Lalabalavu Vanayaliyali Sukuna (22 April 1888 – 30 May 1958) was a Fijian chief, scholar, soldier, and statesman.

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Lau Basin

The Lau Basin is a back-arc basin (also addressed as "interarc basin") at the Australian-Pacific plate boundary.

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Lau Province

Lau Province is one of fourteen provinces of Fiji.

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Lavenia Padarath

Lavenia Padarath (née Wainiqolo; 1944/1945 – July 14, 2019) was a Fijian politician.

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Lomaiviti Islands

The Lomaiviti (pronounced) archipelago of Fiji consists of seven main islands and a number of smaller ones. Lau Islands and Lomaiviti Islands are Archipelagoes of Fiji and Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean.

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Lomaloma

Lomaloma (officially Lomaloma Tikina) is a village at the south of the island of Vanua Balavu in the Lau archipelago of Fiji.

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Maʻafu Tukuiʻaulahi

Siosaia Lausiʻi, Lord Maʻafu Tukuiʻaulahi, also known as Lord Maʻafu (of Vaini and Tokomololo) (1 July 1955 – 12 December 2021), was a Tongan politician, military officer, and member of the Tongan nobility.

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Melanesia

Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Metuisela Talebula

Metuisela Talebula (born 20 May 1991) is a Fijian rugby union footballer.

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Minerva Reefs

The Minerva Reefs (Ongo Teleki) are a group of two submerged atolls located in the Pacific Ocean between Fiji, Niue and Tonga.

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Moala Islands

The Moala Islands are a subgroup of Fiji's Lau archipelago. Lau Islands and Moala Islands are Archipelagoes of Fiji and Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean.

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Netani Talei

Netani Edward Talei (born 19 March 1983 in Suva, Fiji) is a Fijian rugby union player.

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Nukuʻalofa

Nukualofa is the capital and largest city of Tonga.

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Ono-i-Lau

Ono-i-Lau is a group of islands within a barrier reef system in the Fijian archipelago of Lau Islands (ono means "six" in the Fijian language).

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Osea Kolinisau

Osea Kolinisau, OF (born 17 November 1985) is a Fijian rugby union player who plays for Old Glory DC of Major League Rugby (MLR).

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Personal union

A personal union is a combination of two or more monarchical states that have the same monarch while their boundaries, laws, and interests remain distinct.

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Polynesia

Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.

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President of Fiji

The president of Fiji is the head of state of the Republic of Fiji.

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Prime Minister of Fiji

The prime minister of Fiji is the head of government of the Republic of Fiji.

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Qoriniasi Bale

Qoriniasi Babitu Bale (1941 — 21 March 2014) was a barrister, a solicitor and a politician who served twice as Fiji's Minister for Justice and Attorney-General, most recently from 2001 to 2006, when he was deposed in the military coup of 5 December.

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Ratu

Ratu is an Austronesian title used by male Fijians of chiefly rank.

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Roko (title)

Roko is a title of chiefly rank, specifically from the Lau Islands of Fiji.

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Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union or rugby league.

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Sefa Naivalu

Sefanaia "Sefa" Naivalu (born 7 January 1992) is an Australian rugby union professional player who currently plays as a centre or wing for the Queensland Reds in the international Super Rugby competition.

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Sisa Koyamaibole

Sisaro Dautu Koyamaibole (born 6 March 1980) is a Fijian rugby union player.

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Sunia Koto

Sunia Koto Vuli (born 15 April 1980 in Suva) is a Fijian rugby union player.

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Tapa cloth

Tapa cloth (or simply tapa) is a barkcloth made in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, primarily in Tonga, Samoa and Fiji, but as far afield as Niue, Cook Islands, Futuna, Solomon Islands, Java, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Hawaii (where it is called kapa).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau_Islands

Also known as History of the Lau Islands, Lau Archipelago, Lau Group, Lau Islands (Fiji), Lau Islands, Fiji.

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Archipelagoes of Fiji

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