VITI LEVU • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Viti Levu

... in the South Pacific Ocean, the Fiji group is the most important. All told there are more than two hundred islands, but scarcely one-third of them are inhabited, or even habitable. Two of them are large. One, Viti Levu, is about the size of Connecticut; the other, Vanua Levu, is about two-thirds the size of that State. The famous Dutch sailor Abel Janszoon Tasman, whose name is remembered in Tasmania, saw the larger islands in 1643. About one hundred ...

— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson