# Vatukoula

Lautoka, Fiji

Vatukoula, whose name means "gold rock," is a company gold-mining town inland from Tavua in Ba Province. Worked since the 1930s, its mine drew thousands of miners and remains one of the South Pacific's oldest goldfields.

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Coordinates: -17.5, 177.84983

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