When was the first humans arrived in Fiji?

Answer 1

The first people to arrived in Fiji were canoe-seafaring black people from what is now Tanzania, East Africa. About 3500 years ago these people arrived on the western part of Fiji. Fijian legends tell great stories of these migrations to the island-nation.

Answer 2

In 1500 B.C., the Lapita people settled in Fiji, or, as they called it, Viti. I hope this answers your question. I'm doing a report on Fiji because I will be going there with my mom and my brother February 3 and coming back on March 10. Signed, Selena Gomez and Demi Lavato

Answer 3

1643

Dutch explorer, Abel Tasman discovered the islands but did not attempt to land because of reports of cannibalism that was rampant in the islands.

1774

English navigator, Captain James Cook, also sailed close to the group but, again, did not attempt any landing. By 1777 Captain Cook had been able to talk to Fijians living in Tonga and had written the following to the master of Resolution (W Bligh), which was under his command during that expedition. "Feejee and Tongataboo engage in war against each other; and the inhabitants of the latter are often so much afraid of his enemy that they bend the body forward and cover the face with the hands, to express the sense of their own inferiority to the Feejee men..."

1789

Captain William Bligh, after mutiny on the Bounty (April 28), sailed through the Fiji group, entering it south of Moce and North of Yagasa on Monday, May 4. Within the next 24 hours he would pass close to Nairai and Gau, noting that there were bigger islands appearing in the SW and NNW. Bligh was chased by two canoes in the Yasawas but they managed to stay out of reach.

Answer 4

Fiji as a nation was established in October of 1970. It is located in Melanesia about 1,100 miles northeast of the North Island of New Zealand.

Answer 5

It was the Lapita people that came first around 3000BC

Answer 6

Approximately 3500 years ago.

Answer 7

The Lapita People - Asians.