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The Fĳjian islands were first settled by seafaring Polynesians that discovered the remote archipelago about 3,500 years ago, roughly 1,000 years before the Melanesians also arrived by sea. Inter-breeding of the two distinct ethnic groups resulted in what is termed the Fĳjian people today.

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Immediately the British invaders brought with them Indian labourers from their largest colony on the sub-continent thousands of miles to the northwest. In total 61,000 came over during the first 37 years of British rule and were put to work on new industries like the Nausori sugar mill built in 1881.

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Since then the country has seen four coups and regular political uncertainty that seems seldom to have upset the country’s development or the increasing number of visitors that have made tourism the number one foreign exchange earner in Fĳji.

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