Levuka

Levuka is a town on the eastern coast of the Fijian island of Ovalau, in Lomaiviti Province, within the Eastern Division of Fiji. It turned into formerly the capital of Fiji. At the census in 2007, the closing to this point, Levuka town had a populace of 1,131 approximately half of of Ovalau's 8,360 population. It is the financial hub and the most important of 24 settlements on the island.

Levuka and the island of Ovalau had been looking for popularity from UNESCO as a World Heritage Site for decades, subsequently being targeted in June 2013. The contemporary town of Levuka became founded round 1820 with the aid of European settlers and buyers because the first modern-day metropolis in the Fiji Islands, and became an vital port and buying and selling put up. A disparate band of settlers made up Levuka's populace investors, missionaries, shipwrights, speculators, and vagabonds, in addition to decent businessmen. The US Exploring Expedition visited in 1840. Marist priests, led by Father Breheret, installed a challenge in Levuka in 1858. By 1870, the city had a populace of more than 800. When the first modern state country of Fiji changed into founded in 1871, Seru Epenisa Cakobau turned into crowned King at Levuka.