The Rotuma Group is a group of
volcanic island
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s, with
Rotuma Island being the main island, located at , approximately 465 km north of
Fiji
Fiji, 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 of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about ...
.
There are some islands located at a distance between 50 m and 2 km from the main island, but still within the fringing reef:
Solnohu (south),
Solkope (southeast),
Afgaha (far southeast),
Husia (close southeast), as well as
Hạua and
Hạuameaʻmeʻa (close together northeast). Additionally, there is a separate chain of islands between three and six km northwest and west of the westernmost point of Rotuma Island. From northeast to southwest, those are
Uea,
Hạfhai with nearby
Hạfhahoi,
Hạfhaveiaglolo,
Hatana and
Hạfliua.
The islands have an aggregate area of 44 km
2, of which the main island Rotuma occupies 43 km
2. Only the main island is permanently inhabited.
The Rotuma Group comprises a
Dependency of Fiji. The population of the dependency at the 1996
census
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was 2810.
See also
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Desert island
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List of islands
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References
Archipelagoes of Fiji
Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean
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