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Tracing Fiji's History: Exploring the Deed of Cession Site
Levuka is famous for being Fiji’s first capital but it’s also renowned as the place where Fiji became a British colony on 10th October 1874.
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A cession stone was erected on the spot where 13 Fijian chiefs ceded Fiji to Britain just a kilometre south of the main township. Two other similar stones (and a flagpole) mark Prince Charles’ visits for Fiji’s centenary and independence celebrations.
Across the road stands Nasova House – the main government building of the short-lived Cakobau government (1873–74) and later the residence of Fiji’s first British Governor (1874–82). The large bure (Fijian traditional house) on the property was built in 1970 for Prince Charles when he visited Fiji during Independence celebrations. It replaced another earlier bure which King George V stayed in when he visited Levuka as a young Duke in the 1890s.