* The westernmost and easternmost points of the world, based on the normal practice of using longitude, can be found anywhere along the 180th meridian in Siberia ( including Wrangel Island ), Antarctica, or the three islands of Fiji through which the 180th meridian passes ( Vanua Levu's eastern peninsula, the middle of Taveuni, and the western part of Rabi.

With the introduction of communities from Asia aspects of their cultural architecture are now evident in urban and rural areas of Fiji's two main Islands Viti Levu and Vanua Levu.

Mago is located 166 statute miles ENE of the Fiji capital of Suva and SW of the tiny island of Namalata, near Vanua Balavu, where descendants of original Mago inhabitants still reside.

Three Vanua ' aku Pati MPs signed the motion of no confidence, and after they refused to withdraw their signatures, Natapei suspended them from the party immediately prior to the vote.

He did not succeed to his fathers title, first since his father was not known to have been installed to the title of either Tui Nayau or Sau ni Vanua ko Lau, second in the test of feat that had ensued to select the candidate for the title of Tui Nayau he was known to have been one of the two sons of Niumataiwalu who had backed down from the unnerving jump that was put to them by the Bete.

By 1815, however, the supply had been depleted and apart from the occasional visit from whalers and bêche-de-mer traders, the island received little further attention until 1840, when a young sailor known as Jackson deserted his crew at Somosomo on the nearby island of Taveuni, was adopted by a local Chief, and explored much of eastern and northern Vanua Levu.

In 1643 AD, Abel Tasman sighted Vanua Levu Island and northern Taveuni.

Renamed the Vanua ' aku Party in 1974, the party pushed for independence.

Further damage to the economy ( estimated at US $ 30 million ) was wrought by a cyclone that hit the northern island of Vanua Levu in January 2003.

The overthrow of the government saw support for Speight's cause as outbreaks of violence occurred in Suva, Levuka, Naitasiri, Tailevu, Ra, Nadi, Yasawa, Serua, Namosi, and on July 7 an army base on Vanua Levu Island was overrun by his supporters.

He was elected as a Representative for the Tailevu North Fijian Communal constituency as a candidate of the Conservative Alliance Matanitu Vanua Party despite his confinement on Nukulau Island.

He is the President of the Vanua ' aku Pati, a socialist, Anglophone political party.

In 1996, he was elected as Speaker of Parliament, and in 1999 he was elected as President of Vanua ' aku Pati.

Being Vanua ' aku Party President entitled Natapei to the post of Speaker of the House, which he declined and relegated to Sam Dan Avock, who was a Party Executive Member.

A split in Vanua ' aku Pati was resolved in August 2005, and Natapei was re-elected as its President, receiving 124 votes against 67 for Sela Molisa.

Natapei succeeded Ham Lini as Prime Minister and headed a new coalition government encompassing his own Vanua ' aku Pati, as well as Lini's National United Party, independents and several smaller political parties, such as Namangi Aute.

Mara's title, Ratu, which means " Chief ," was hereditary ; as the hereditary Paramount Chief of the Lau Islands, he held the titles of Tui Lau, and Tui Nayau kei Sau ni Vanua ko Lau.

During the era when Vanuatu was a condominium ruled by the United Kingdom and France, Lini formed the Vanua ' aku Pati, which was principally backed by English-speakers.

When the Vanua ' aku Party led the country to independence as Vanuatu in 1980, the colors of the party flag-red, green, black and yellow-were chosen to be the basis for the national flag.

The son of Kolinio Epeli Vanuacicila Rabuka and Salote Lomaloma Rabuka, he comes from the village of Drekeniwai on Vanua Levu, one of Fiji's two major islands.

Vanua Levu ( pronounced ), formerly known as Sandalwood Island, is the second largest island of Fiji.

Geologists believe that Vanua Levu is an amalgamation of several islands that melded through successive stages of uplift.

Northern Vanua Levu, by contrast, is dry eight months of the year, enabling sugar cane, the island's major crop, to thrive there.

Vanua Levu has a number of rivers, including the Labasa, the Wailevu, and the Qawa.

Tourism is now becoming a major industry on Vanua Levu also.

Together with the remote Lau Islands, Vanua Levu and its outliers form the Tovata Confederacy, one of three traditional alliances of Fiji's chiefs.

The Dutch navigator Abel Tasman was the first known European to sight Vanua Levu, in 1643.

Unable to pay his debt, and faced with increasing encroachments onto Viti Levu's south coast from Ma ' afu, Cakobau approached the British consul with an offer to cede the islands to the United Kingdom, if only they would assume responsibility for his debt in return for 5, 000 square kilometres of land.

The lower regions and larger towns of the Alps are well-served by motorways and main roads, but higher mountain passes and byroads can be treacherous even in summer.

About 73 % of Japan is mountainous, with a mountain range running through each of the main islands.

Ladakh is a region in the east, between the Kunlun mountain range in the north and the main Great Himalayas to the south.

The main mineral resource is diamonds from the Letseng diamond mine in the Maluti mountain range.

The main mountain ranges are the Taygetus ( 2, 407 m ) in the west and the Parnon ( 1, 961 m ) in the northeast.

The main Earth religion is Mercerism, in which Empathy Boxes link simultaneous users into a collective consciousness based on the suffering of Wilbur Mercer, a man who takes an endless walk up a mountain while stones are thrown at him, the pain of which the users share.

The Cordillera de Caaguazú rises where the other two main mountain ranges meet and extends south, with an average height of.

The Cordilleras and Caraballos, together with the Sierra Madre Range, form the main mountain system in Northern Luzon.

The main mountain range is called " La Cordillera Central " ( The Central Range ).

Three main long-distance footpaths run the length of the mountain range ; the GR 10 across the northern slopes, the GR 11 across the southern slopes, and the HRP which traverses peaks and ridges along a high altitude route.

The GPP was based on the " accumulation of forces in silence ": while the urban organization recruited on the university campuses and collected funds through bank holdups, the main cadres were to go permanently to the north central mountain zone.

* May 18 – Lhotse ( main ), the fourth highest mountain, is first ascended.

Currently there are two main branches of freestyle skiing: one encompassing the more traditional events of moguls and aerials, and a newer branch often called new school, comprising events such as halfpipe, big air, slopestyle, and big mountain or free-skiing.

The county's main mountain ranges include: the Slieve Miskish and Caha Mountains on the Beara Peninsula, the Ballyhoura Mountains on the border with Limerick and the Shehy Mountains which contain Knockboy ( 706 m ) the highest point in Cork.

Following the curved mountain ridge of the West Bank, the Arc establishes a national corridor that would provide swift rail service, roadway, water, power, and parkland for the main Palestinian towns and cities.

From there the Sublette-Greenwood Cutoff trail had to cross a mountain range to connect with the main trail near Cokeville, Wyoming in the Bear River valley.

It was about shorter than the main trail through Fort Bridger with good grass, water, firewood and fishing but it was a much steeper and rougher route, crossing three mountain ranges.

Hudspeth's Cutoff had five mountain ranges to cross and took about the same amount of time as the main route to Fort Hall, but many took it thinking it was shorter.

The main mountain regions on either side are named, as are the various local valleys.

Once he had expelled the Moors from the eastern valleys of Asturias, Pelayo attacked León, the main city in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula and secured the mountain passes, isolating the region from Moorish attack.

The extensive region lying south of the main ridge is occupied by mountain ranges whose summits sometimes rival in height those of the dividing ridge, and which are cut through by deep valleys, three of which converge in the basins of Lake Maggiore and Lake Como, the deepest of all the lakes on the south side of the Alps.

The Dauphiné Alps () are a group of mountain ranges in southeastern France, west of the main chain of the Alps.

Unlike many other mountain ranges, the higher peaks are often located outside the main chain and found themselves between the northern valleys ( Grand Combin, Weisshorn, Mischabel, Weissmies ).

The main source of revenue, however, is tourism, mainly mountain gorilla visitation.

Cising Mountain is located on the Tatun Volcano Group and the tallest mountain at the rim of the Taipei Basin, with its main peak at.