Mixed Siliciclastic-Skeletal Carbonate Lagoon Sediments from a High Volcanic Island, Viti Levu, Fiji, Southwest Pacific

Echoes from a distance: research into the Lapita occupation of the Rove Peninsula, southwest Viti Levu, Fiji

Hospitalised and Fatal Head Injuries in Viti Levu, Fiji: Findings from an Island-Wide Trauma Registry (TRIP 4)

BACKGROUND Globally, head injury is a substantial cause of mortality and morbidity. A disproportionately greater burden is borne by low- and middle-income countries. The incidence and characteristics of fatal and hospitalised head injuries in Fiji are unknown. METHODS Using prospective data from the Fiji Injury Surveillance in Hospital system, the epidemiology of fatal and hospitalised head i...

Botanical Studies within the PABITRA Wet - Zone Transect , Viti Levu , Fiji

Botanical studies along mountain-to-sea transects are a key component of the Pacific-Asia Biodiversity Transect (PABITRA) project. For the Fiji PABITRA Wet-Zone Transect, it is suggested that four basic categories of biodiversity data (species inventory, plant community description, ecological data on the species and community level, and long-term monitoring) be collected within the seven biodi...

Agricultural Terracing at Nakauvadra, Viti Levu: A Late Prehistoric Irrigated Agrosystem in Fiji

Agricultural intensification on Pacific Islands often resulted in dramatic and durablemodifications to the environment. Irrigated terrace agrosystems for the cultivationof wetland taro (Colocasia esculenta) reshaped hillsides and stream valleys in many IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE IN FIJI . KUHLKEN AND CROSBY areas of Fiji. The functional morphology and design of several now abandoned ter-...

World War II Archaeology in Fiji: Assessing the Material Record

World War II was a global conflict that dramatically changed societies and landscapes around the world. It also left behind a vast and diverse material record. Although the battles of the conflict never reached Fiji, a British colony in the South Pacific, the War's impact on the island group is clear. Through 1942 and part of 1943, while under threat of Japanese invasion, defensive installation...