BP4 QTR4 - Geography

Geography


Location: The island group of Fiji belongs to the Oceania Group of islands in the South Pacific and lies about two-thirds from Hawaii to New Zealand. The geographical coordinates of Fiji are 18 00 S, 175 00 E. 


Area: Fiji covers about 1.3 million square kilometers of the South Pacific Ocean. Fiji's total land area is 18,333 square kilometers. 


Area-Comparative: Comparatively, the area occupied by Fiji is slightly smaller than the state of New Jersey.


Land Boundaries: 0 Km


Climate: tropical marine; only slight seasonal temperature variation and nice warm weather throughout the year


Terrain: mostly mountains of volcanic origin


Natural Resources: timber, fish, gold, copper, offshore oil potential, hydropower, & water


Land Use:
arable land: 10.95%
permanent crops: 4.65%
permanent pastures: land permanently used for herbaceous forage crops
forests and woodland: land under dense or open stands of trees
other: 84.4%


Environment-Current Issues: The most pressing and important environmental problems are
 deforestation; soil erosion


Environment-International Agreements: Party to : Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94 
Signed, but not ratified : none of the selected agreements 

Natural Hazards: cyclonic storms can occur from November to January

BP3 QTR4

Country Name: Conventional - Fiji;  Official - Republic of the Fiji Islands
 

Nationality:  Noun - Fiji Islander;  Adjective - Fiji or Fijian.
 

Languages: Fiji has three official languages and they are English, Bau Fijian and Hindustani but English is the main language of communication in Fiji.
 

Flag Description:

Fiji's flag flew for the first time on Independence Day, October 10, 1970. It includes the red, white and blue Union Flag of Britain in the top left-hand corner and the shield from the Fiji Coat of Arms on a light blue background in the fly. The design for the national flag was selected as the result of a competition won jointly by Mr. Robi Wilcock and Mrs. Murray MacKenzie.

 

Background: Fiji was first settled about three and a half thousand years ago. The original inhabitants are now called "Lapita people" after a distinctive type of fine pottery they produced, remnants of which have been found in practically all the islands of the Pacific, east of New Guinea, though not in eastern Polynesia. Linguistic evidence suggests that they came from northern or central Vanuatu, or possibly the eastern Solomons.

BP2QTR4: UN Quick Write

        The UN or United Nations is an organization that brings together 192 nations to help things such as human rights and other things of that nature. It started after WWII to replace The League of Nations which could not prevent the world war. The UN has the military power to carry out the decisions it makes. The charter was made as a set of rules that the member countries have to follow so they can work together successfully.
        The UN is completely necessary today because if we didn't have it then the uprise in the middle east might be a lot worse than it is. Also many of the worlds problems like hunger and other civilian problems like that. This world would definatly be a lot more problems than there are right now. For example if not for the UN the problems between Isrial and Palestine would be more extreme and more violent.
        Finally these are some of the plethora of reasons that the UN is completely necessary. The world needs the UN and would be a worse place without it. Especially with the current events going on in the middle east.