Lautoka

Lautoka is the second biggest town of Fiji. It is in the west of the island of Viti Levu, 24 kilometres north of Nadi and port of entry in Fiji, after Suva. Lying inside the coronary heart of Fiji's sugar cane-developing vicinity, it is called the Sugar City. Covering an area of 16 rectangular kilometres, it had a population of 52,220 at the 2007 census, the maximum recent to this point. The call of the city is derived from Fijian words that means spear hit.

According to an oral culture, the call arose following a duel between two chiefs. As one speared the opposite, he was said to have cried Lau-toka. The first regarded European sighting of the Lautoka region occurred on 7 May 1789. Captain William Bligh spotted and more or less charted the coasts of Lautoka whilst making his epic voyage to Timor, inside the wake of the mutiny on the Bounty. Lautoka is known as the Sugar City because of its sugar cane belt areas. The important Lautoka Sugar Mill turned into based in 1903 and is the city's biggest corporation by some distance.