The Lakeba State denotes the first Lauan state in what is now

Lau Province Lau Province is one of fourteen provinces of Fiji. Its capital is at Tubou, at the southern end of the island of Lakeba. The province forms part of the country's Eastern Division (which also includes the provinces of Kadavu and Lomaiviti), and o ...

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

. It was first controlled by Lakeba. They were then consolidated by the Cekena Dynasty by the end of the 17th century. This included the following southern Lau Islands: * Kabara and its dependencies,

Vuaqava Vuaqava (pronounced ) is an outlier to Kabara, 5 kilometers to the SSW, in Fiji's Southern Lau Group. It occupies an area of 8.1 km2. This limestone island has a maximum altitude of 107 meters. The island is uninhabited but visited by fis ...

, Marabo, Tavunasici, Komo, Fiji and

Namuka Namuka is an uninhabited islet in Shefa Province of Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean. The island is a part of Shepherd Islands archipelago. Geography Namuka lies off the southern shore of Epi Island Epi (or Épi, Api; formerly known as Tasiko o ...

Fulaga Fulaga (pronounced ) (proper name: Vulaga) is a crescent-shaped reef-limestone island in Fiji's Southern Lau Group. The spectacular lagoon and the fact that the island is a ''Pritchardia thurstonii ''Pritchardia thurstonii'' is a species of flo ...

and its dependencies,

Ogea Levu Ogea Levu (pronounced ) is a coral island on a barrier reef in Fiji's Southern Lau archipelago. With an area of , it is situated at 19.18° South and 178.47° West, east of Fulaga. It has a maximum altitude of . A area covering both Ogea Levu a ...

and

Ogea Driki Ogea Driki (pronounced ) is a coral atoll covering approximately in Fiji's Southern Lau Group. It is south of Ogea Levu and east of Fulaga. A area covering both Ogea Driki and Ogea Levu is the Ogea Important Bird Area. The Important Bird ...

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). There are four central volcanic islands: Onolevu, Doi (or Ndoi) Lovoni and Ndavura, the uppermos ...

and its dependency Vatoa * Oneata * Moce

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