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The Early Colonial Basis of Politics in Fiji
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Abstract
Fiji consists of 520 islands scattered over 650,000 square kilometres of the south-west Pacific Ocean with a total land area of just over 18,000 square kilometres. Occupation by the predominantly Melanesian people of Fiji dates from over three thousand years ago, as evidenced by fragments of pottery found in several areas which have been dated to 1500 bc.1 The people of this time had a culture which was much the same as those who migrated to Tonga and Samoa and became the ancestral Polynesians.2 The people of the latter islands developed in isolation from the west but in Fiji, later migration produced the mixed physical type of the present population3 which corresponds with the cultural variety found by archaeologists and linguists.4
Title: The Early Colonial Basis of Politics in Fiji
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Abstract
Fiji consists of 520 islands scattered over 650,000 square kilometres of the south-west Pacific Ocean with a total land area of just over 18,000 square kilometres.
Occupation by the predominantly Melanesian people of Fiji dates from over three thousand years ago, as evidenced by fragments of pottery found in several areas which have been dated to 1500 bc.
1 The people of this time had a culture which was much the same as those who migrated to Tonga and Samoa and became the ancestral Polynesians.
2 The people of the latter islands developed in isolation from the west but in Fiji, later migration produced the mixed physical type of the present population3 which corresponds with the cultural variety found by archaeologists and linguists.
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