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Rotuma

Island dependency of Fiji

Entitydependency of FijiQ459763

Also known as Rotuma Island

Instance of: dependency of Fiji
Country: Fiji
Located in: Fiji
Founded: 1881
Website: rotuma.net

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Rotuma is a self-governing territory generally designated a dependency of Fiji. Rotuma commonly refers to the Rotuma Island, the only permanently inhabited and by far the largest of all the islands in the Rotuma Group. Officially, the Rotuma Act declares that Rotuma consists of Rotuma Island as well as its neighbouring islands, rocks, and reefs across the entire Rotuma Group. The dependency is situated around 500 km west of the French islands of Wallis and Futuna and a similar distance north of the Fijian mainland. Its capital is Ahau, a hamlet consisting of a number of colonial-era buildings. Rotuma exists as a dependency of Fiji but itself contains its own socioreligious pene-enclave known traditionally as Faguta where the chiefs and their villages adhere to the practices of worship, festival dates, and French-based writing system of the Marists, based at Sumi.

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Area: 46 km²
Elevation: 128 m
Native label: Rotuma
Capital: Motusa
Different from: Rotuma Island
Language used: Rotuman
Located in or next to body of water: Pacific Ocean

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AIDb. (2026). Rotuma (Q459763). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/rotuma-Q459763