Kadavu Island Fiji Map

19.0500 Longitude

The Kadavu (pronounced[kan?da?u]) is with an area of 411 km² the 4th biggest island in Fiji and the biggest island of the Kadavu group, a vulcanic archipelagos of Kadavu, Ono, Galoa and some smaller ones in the Great Astrolabe Reef. Vunisea, which has an international airfield, a grammar and grammar schools, a local health center and a regional office on Namalata Isthmus, where the island is almost divided into two parts, is its central city.

Suva, the Fiji capitol, is 88 kilometers northern of Kadavu.

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Fiji's Kadavu has taken a straight blow from Hurricane Keni, which with its devastating wind is eradicating houses, eradicating roots from the tree and destroying vessels on the southern side of the island. Kerchevale said they would set off to inspect the villagers once they were sure the hurricane was over and they were able to remove rubble from the area around the area.

Ono-Kadavu Island, Paul Ragede says that for over two long hrs extremely violent wind from the cycle washes. Previously, Fijian civil protection agencies had warned those in flood-prone areas to move to emergency response centers before Cycle Keni. Penioni Kuinikoro, a spokesman for the National Disaster Managment Office, said that parts of Fiji could already be disastrous due to the floods last week-end after Cycle Joise and other severe rains.

"but we have the local workforce. Fiji's meteorology department says Nadi and the southwest of Viti Levu have managed to escape the most severe impact of the hurricane. From 8:19 p.m. on Tuesday, the Keni cyclone was still a system of the third class, capable of handling up to 170 km/h. The cyclone was the first of its kind in the world.

There was still a cycle alert for Southern Viti-Levu, Vatulele, Beqa, Kadavu and the neighbouring islands of Moala and Southern Lau. For the latest information on the Keni cycle, published by the Nadi Meteorological Office, click here.