DEFENDED RIDGES

Hill forts and the highlands

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What we know

  • Communities built forts on ridges and hilltops, with ditches, banks and fences.
  • Tavuni Hill Fort, above the Sigatoka valley, was built in the 1700s by the Tongan chief Maile Latumai.
  • Highland peoples of inland Viti Levu, such as those of Namosi and the Kai Colo, held out against coastal powers and, in 1876, against the new colonial government.

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