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March 5, 2003
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Savusavu, Fiji
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1993
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James L. Stanfield
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A Fijian girl from Vanua Levu island lives in a socially and racially diverse nation. First settled about 3,000 years ago, the islands became a racial mixing ground of Polynesians, who today dominate the central Pacific islands, and Melanesians, who predominate from New Guinea to New Caledonia. Originally brought to Fiji in the late 1800s to serve British colonialists, ethnic Indians have grown to become the third major racial group.
—Text adapted from "The Two Worlds of Fiji," October 1995, National Geographic magazine
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