• Lau Islands The Lau Islands (also called the Lau Group, the Eastern Group, the Eastern Archipelago) of Fiji are situated in the southern Pacific Ocean...
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  • up Lau or lau in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lau or LAU may refer to: Lau (surname) Liu (劉/刘), a common Chinese family name transliterated Lau in...
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    Polynesia (redirect from Polynesian islands)
    found. Anuta (in Solomon Islands) Bellona Island (in Solomon Islands) Emae (in Vanuatu) Fiji (excluding Rotuma and the Lau Islands) Mele (in Vanuatu) Nuguria...
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  • This is a list of islands of Fiji. Fiji is an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. It is split into 9 separate geographic island groups. The smallest is...
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  • Philippine mahogany Lauan ground skink, a species of lizard found on the Lau Islands of Fiji Lauan language, a language spoken in East Fiji Lauan plywood...
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    eastern Fiji. Geographically it consists of the Lau Archipelago. The Lau group comprises 57 islands, 19 of which are inhabited, and has a total land...
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    The Pacific islands are a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. They are further categorized into three major island groups: Melanesia, Micronesia, and...
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    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). There...
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    Mamanuca Islands (Fijian: [mamaˈnuða]) of Fiji are a volcanic archipelago lying to the west of Nadi and to the south of the Yasawa Islands. The group...
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  • are located west of the Lau Islands proper, and were historically linked more closely with Bau Island and Viti Levu than with Lau. They were unified by...
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    Brachylophus fasciatus, the Lau banded iguana, is an arboreal species of lizard endemic to the Lau Islands of the eastern part of the Fijian archipelago...
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    Fiji (redirect from Fiji Islands)
    100 sq mi). The most outlying island group is Ono-i-Lau. About 87% of the total population of 924,610 live on the two major islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu...
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    sorted by location. Fiji, officially the Republic of the Fiji Islands, is an island nation with an approximate population of 920,000, in the South Pacific...
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    -179.150 Mago Island (pronounced [ˈmaŋo]) is a volcanic island that lies in the northwest sector of Fiji's northern Lau Group of islands. One of the largest...
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  • Laucala (category Islands of Fiji)
    Naulumatua. He established Nauluvatu village. Many islands and villages in the northern Lau islands were under political control or influence by Laucala:...
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    Levu island, Fiji to the west and the Lau Islands to the east, surrounded by the islands of the Fijian archipelago. It is named after Koro Island. Murray...
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    and Lau Islands. On the morning of 25 January, Wilma blew over Tonga as a severe tropical cyclone. Major damage was reported in the Ha'apai Islands of...
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    Andy Lau Tak-wah SBS BBS MH JP (Chinese: 劉德華; Jyutping: Lau4 Dak1 Waa4; born 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter and film producer...
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  • also known as the Lauan ground skink or Ono-i-Lau ground skink, is a species of skink found on Lau Islands of Fiji. The species is currently critically...
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    of two main islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, and smaller islands, including the Lau Islands. From the geological point of view, the island of New Guinea...
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  • ceded the islands to the United Kingdom in 1874. Other prominent chiefly clans include the Vuanirewa (the traditional rulers of the Lau Islands) and the...
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  • the islands conquered by Ma'afu, customs and traditions in the island of Matuku and its people divert from that of other conquered islands in the Lau group...
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    Cao lầu is a regional Vietnamese noodle dish, from the city of Hội An, in central Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province. It typically consists of pork and greens...
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    that forms the western boundary of the Lau Basin and has contributed to many islands south east of Fiji. The Lau Basin to its east currently contains 6...
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    of the Lau group. As stated in "Canoes of Oceania", the camakau was particularly used in travelling between islands, and for chiefs of islands to visit...
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    Sawana (category Lau Islands)
    Tui Lau comes from the Tongan community in Sawana and is then handed to the Vuanirewa clan on the island of Lakeba for a final decision Islands portal...
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    17:40 local time. Some tsunami activity was also reported in the Lau Islands. The islands of Moce, Moala, Kadavu and Taveuni were struck by low-level tsunamis...
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    particular the Lau Islands. It is vulnerable and threatened by habitat loss. It is sometimes known as the Thurston's palm or the Lau fan palm and is...
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    Andrew Lau Wai-keung (Chinese: 劉偉強, born 4 April 1960) is a Hong Kong film director, producer, and cinematographer. Lau began his career in the 1980s and...
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    78639Cikobia-i-Lau, or Cirikalia, is an island in the Lau Islands in the north-east of Fiji. The island has historically been called Thikombia, Thimkombia-i-Lau or...
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