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Fiji is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean east of Vanuatu, west of Tonga and south of Tuvalu. The country occupies an archipelago of about 322 islands, of which 106 are permanently inhabited, and 522 islets.
Pottery excavated from Fijian towns shows that Fiji was settled before or around 1000 BC, although the question of Pacific migration still lingers. The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman visited Fiji in 1643 while looking for the Great Southern Continent.

The population of Fiji is mostly made up of native Fijians, who are Melanesians , although a few also have Polynesian ancestry, and Indo-Fijians . There is also a small but significant group of descendants of indentured labourers from Solomon Islands.

Fijians were described by the Cook expedition as formidable warriors and ferocious cannibals, builders of the finest vessels in the Pacific, but not great sailors.