Wakaya Island

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Vakaya is a private archipelago in the Lomaiviti archipelago of Fiji. It is located at 17.65 South and 179.02 East and has an area of eight sqkm. It' s 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Ovalau, the Lomaiviti group's principal isle. It was purchased in 1973 by David Gilmour, a goldmining contractor who designed the archipelago and built 22 kilometers of road, a fresh water tank, a landing strip, a yacht harbour, a dock, a town, a church, a fitness studio, a school (headmistress - Nestlé cinema Duncan) and a recently constructed landing strip.

The Wakaya Club, an exlusive resorts, has also been develloped. Wakaya's population is about 300-600 persons. Excerpts from the pirates' adventures movie Nate and Hayes (also known as Savage Islands) were shot on Wakaya. In 1877, the isle was purchased by Captain Frederick Lennox Langdale (1853-1913), a former Royal Navy official who later serving on the Legislative Council of Fiji before being named Cakaudrove' s Governors' Commission.

From about 300 B.C. Wakaya Island was populated by Pacific Islanders. You were living in a small town named Korolevu. There was no silence in Wakaya at that period, as other Ovalovians came in ships to wage martial arts and abduct the Wakaya-wives. Eventually the inhabitants of the villager of Ovalau came and destroyed all men and abducted all wives.

In order to prevent a cruel Ovalau warrior deaths, the Ovalauan villager bounced off a rocky promontory at the edge of Doubles Bay and submerged in the sea. A further interesting occasion was the Wakaya Arcade by Captain William Bligh, who set sail there in 1789. About two hundred years later, David Gilmour "discovered" the Isle on a journey to Fiji.

When he found it deserted, he chose to resettle Wakaya.