Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1967Vol. 38, No. 10

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Outrigger canoes like this were prob ably used by the Fijians to visit the missionaries and crews of the "Hibernia" and "Venus" during their enforced stay on a small islet off Vanua Levu in 1809-10. Such canoes are still in use in Fiji, although they are not often seen nowadays in the more frequented centres. The picture was taken in Suva harbour in Decem ber, 1953, when Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh paid their first Royal Visit to the colony.

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