Yasawa, also called Assawa and Ysava, is the northernmost large island of the

Yasawa Group The Yasawa Group is an archipelago of about 20 Volcano, volcanic islands in the Western Division, Fiji, Western Division of Fiji, with an approximate total area of . Geography The Yasawa volcanic group consists of six main islands and num ...

, an

archipelago An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands. An archipelago may be in an ocean, a sea, or a smaller body of water. Example archipelagos include the Aegean Islands (the o ...

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 ...

's Western Division. Located at 17.00° South and 177.23° East, it covers an area of . It has a maximum altitude of

above sea level Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level. In geodesy, it is formalized as orthometric height. The zero level ...

. The population was 1,120 in 1983. The islands are served by the

Yasawa Island Airport Yasawa Island Airport is an airport on the Yasawa Island in the Fiji's Western Division. The airport is a short strip running the width of the island, and is mainly used for general aviation General aviation (GA) is defined by the Interna ...

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