Geography And Geography: The Republic Of The Fiji Islands

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The Republic of the Fiji Islands is an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean. The total number of islands in Fiji is 332. The geographical coordinates of the location of Fiji is18°00′S 179°00′E. Total land area of Fiji is 18,270 sq. km. Fiji is made of many small islands of which Viti Levu and Vanua Levu are the largest. Topographically Fiji’s topography is divided into three major classes: plains and valleys; low mountains and hills and high mountains. The landforms are either depositional - littoral or fluvial, erosional - fluvial erosion, mass movement or volcanic. Soil type distribution can be produced from a geographical information system (GIS) based at Koronivia Research Station. Sixty five per cent of soils have developed on steep slopes (over 21o), 20% on gently undulating and hilly land (4-21 o) and 15% on flat land (under4 o) (Leslie 1997). The most fertile soils are in the floodplains of the Sigatoka, Rewa, Nadi, Ba, Navua and Labasa rivers and are generally derived from basic volcanic parent material. Some types of soils are "nigrescent - dark top soil" soils and ferru...

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