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Roots Earth in Suva: audio stories about 40 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 40 places in Suva, Fiji, in Oceania. The Suva stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Suva, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 40 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: suva.md

The 40 places in Suva with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Sacred Heart Cathedral
  2. Grand Pacific Hotel
  3. Fiji Museum
  4. Government House
  5. Thurston Gardens
  6. Government Buildings
  7. Albert Park
  8. Suva Carnegie Library
  9. Suva Municipal Market
  10. Reserve Bank of Fiji
  11. Suva Old Town Hall
  12. Centenary Methodist Church
  13. Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral
  14. Victoria Parade
  15. Ratu Sukuna Park
  16. Suva Cenotaph War Memorial
  17. Parliament of Fiji
  18. Suva Point
  19. Walu Bay
  20. Suva Harbour
  21. The Triangle
  22. National Archives of Fiji
  23. HFC Bank Stadium
  24. Vodafone Arena
  25. University of the South Pacific
  26. Suva Courthouse
  27. My Suva Picnic Park
  28. Toorak
  29. Samabula
  30. Flagstaff
  31. Nasese
  32. Muanikau
  33. Tamavua
  34. Suva Flea Market
  35. WG Friendship Plaza
  36. Suva Grammar School
  37. Marist Brothers High School
  38. Colo-i-Suva Forest Reserve
  39. Suva Fiji Temple
  40. Lami

Is there an audio guide for Sacred Heart Cathedral?

Yes. Sacred Heart Cathedral has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 40 Suva places in the app, at -18.1416, 178.442. Every one of the other 39 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Suva

Open Roots Earth and choose Suva. The city has its own map of places with all 40 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 40 places in Suva, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 40 places in Suva, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Sacred Heart Cathedral

Coordinates
-18.1416, 178.442
In one line
Completed in 1902 from sandstone shipped near Sydney, this Roman Catholic cathedral on Pratt Street draws on the churches of Rome. It serves as the principal Catholic church in Fiji, ornamented with stained glass and a basement crypt.

2. Grand Pacific Hotel

Coordinates
-18.1469, 178.4225
In one line
Opened in 1914 by the Union Steamship Company on reclaimed harbour land, this colonnaded landmark on Victoria Parade was built to feel like an ocean liner ashore. After decades of decline and closure, it reopened in 2014 as a restored five-star hotel.

3. Fiji Museum

Coordinates
-18.1495, 178.4258
In one line
Founded in 1904 and housed in a purpose-built hall in Thurston Gardens since 1955, this museum holds artifacts spanning some 3,700 years of Fijian history, from the great Ratu Finau double-hulled canoe to the rudder of HMS Bounty.

4. Government House

Coordinates
-18.15189, 178.42614
In one line
After lightning destroyed the original residence in 1921, this Georgian mansion was completed in 1928 on Queen Elizabeth Drive. Once home to colonial governors, it now serves as the official residence of Fiji's President, with a monthly changing of the guard.

5. Thurston Gardens

Coordinates
-18.1491, 178.4247
In one line
Created in the 1880s as the Suva Botanical Gardens and reorganised in 1913, this tropical garden was renamed in 1976 for Governor Sir John Bates Thurston. Palms, gingers, and water lilies surround a 1918 clock tower and the Fiji Museum.

6. Government Buildings

Coordinates
-18.1444, 178.4258
In one line
Built between 1937 and 1939 on a drained creek bed, this imposing colonial complex with its clock tower was the seat of Fiji's administration and home to Parliament until 1992. Its foundations rest on more than five kilometres of concrete piling.

7. Albert Park

Coordinates
-18.146, 178.4248
In one line
This central sports ground opposite the Grand Pacific Hotel has staged Fiji's national moments, from the 1928 landing of aviator Charles Kingsford Smith to the celebrations of independence. Cricket, rugby, parades, and carnivals fill its open green by the harbour.

8. Suva Carnegie Library

Coordinates
-18.141, 178.4253
In one line
Funded by an Andrew Carnegie grant and opened in 1909, this columned colonial building on Victoria Parade opened for a public library service that had operated in Victoria Memorial Hall since 1904. Its portico and reading rooms remain a beloved civic landmark in Fiji's capital.

9. Suva Municipal Market

Coordinates
-18.1393, 178.429
In one line
Fiji's largest produce market, on its present site since 1949 between Harris Road and Rodwell Road. On busy Fridays and Saturdays as many as 3,500 vendors sell taro, tropical fruit, seafood, and mounds of kava root.

10. Reserve Bank of Fiji

Coordinates
-18.1396, 178.4251
In one line
Fiji's central bank, which began operations in 1984 in a fourteen-storey tower then the tallest building in the country. It issues the Fijian dollar, guards monetary stability, and houses a money museum near the harbourfront.

11. Suva Old Town Hall

Coordinates
-18.1418, 178.4258
In one line
Opened in 1905 as the Queen Victoria Memorial Hall, this Victorian civic building on Victoria Parade once hosted theatre, dances, and bazaars. Over a century it has held a museum, an aquarium, and restaurants beside the city library.

12. Centenary Methodist Church

Coordinates
-18.1432, 178.4256
In one line
Opened in 1954, this downtown church marks a century of Methodism in Fiji, dating from the Wesleyan missionaries who landed in 1835. Known as the cathedral of Fijian Methodism, it serves the country's largest Christian denomination.

13. Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral

Coordinates
-18.143, 178.426
In one line
The Anglican cathedral of the Diocese of Polynesia in central Suva, with roots in the colony's early years and a bishop first enthroned here in 1908. Its colonial Gothic stone tower and timber-roofed nave anchor the city.

14. Victoria Parade

Coordinates
-18.1442, 178.4255
In one line
Suva's main boulevard, named for Queen Victoria and running beside the harbour. The civic and commercial spine of the capital, it lines colonial shopfronts, banks, and government buildings along ground reclaimed from the sea.

15. Ratu Sukuna Park

Coordinates
-18.1408, 178.4268
In one line
A central waterfront green named for Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, the scholar-soldier-statesman who helped shape modern Fiji. Created on reclaimed foreshore in 1955, it hosts markets, festivals, and lunchtime crowds beside Victoria Parade.

16. Suva Cenotaph War Memorial

Coordinates
-18.141, 178.4265
In one line
Suva's war memorial honours Fijians who served and died in the World Wars and later conflicts. Standing near the waterfront civic precinct, it gathers crowds each year on Remembrance Day and ANZAC Day for solemn wreath-laying ceremonies.

17. Parliament of Fiji

Coordinates
-18.1499, 178.4452
In one line
Fiji's parliamentary complex at Veiuto opened in 1992, its layout modelled on a traditional Fijian village. The main chamber rises highest, like a chief's bure above the village green, fusing democratic function with indigenous design.

18. Suva Point

Coordinates
-18.1556, 178.4519
In one line
The tip of the Suva peninsula, where the city meets the sea at Laucala Bay.

19. Walu Bay

Coordinates
-18.1335, 178.428
In one line
Suva's largest industrial district, with industrial sites created by extensive reclamation in 1913–16. Once known as Waluwalu, it now holds factories, warehouses, shipyards, container yards, and a brewery along a busy working stretch of the harbour.

20. Suva Harbour

Coordinates
-18.132, 178.425
In one line
The deep, reef-sheltered harbour that gave Suva its reason to exist and made it Fiji's capital. A natural anchorage on Viti Levu's south coast, it remains the country's busiest port for cargo, tankers, and cruise ships.

21. The Triangle

Coordinates
-18.1405, 178.4258
In one line
Suva's symbolic centre, a small triangular green shaded by an ivi tree. A whitewashed marker records milestones in Fiji's history, from the first missionaries to the founding of the capital, though some of its dates are famously inaccurate.

22. National Archives of Fiji

Coordinates
-18.1447, 178.4265
In one line
The National Archives of Fiji preserves the nation's documentary memory on Carnarvon Street in Suva. Founded in 1954 and renamed after independence, it safeguards roughly a million records, historical photographs, and rare film footage open to researchers.

23. HFC Bank Stadium

Coordinates
-18.15, 178.449
In one line
HFC Bank Stadium is Fiji's national arena, seating about 15,446. Opened as Buckhurst Park in 1951 and rebuilt for the 1979 South Pacific Games, it hosts rugby, football, and athletics, including the Fijian Drua and the national teams.

24. Vodafone Arena

Coordinates
-18.14694, 178.45028
In one line
Vodafone Arena is Suva's main indoor venue, holding around 4,000 spectators. Built for the 2003 South Pacific Games and once called the FMF Dome, it stages netball, basketball, concerts, and conventions under one large roof in the Fijian capital.

25. University of the South Pacific

Coordinates
-18.1497, 178.4456
In one line
The University of the South Pacific, founded in 1968, spreads across its Laucala Bay campus in Suva, built on a former seaplane base. Owned by 12 Pacific nations, it is one of the world's most international universities and the region's leading center of learning.

26. Suva Courthouse

Coordinates
-18.1445, 178.4262
In one line
The Suva Courthouse occupies the colonnaded Government Buildings, built between 1937 and 1939 in a stripped classical style. Crowned by a clock tower, it houses the High Court of Fiji, the heart of the nation's judiciary on Victoria Parade.

27. My Suva Picnic Park

Coordinates
-18.1535, 178.45
In one line
My Suva Picnic Park is a waterfront green space along Queen Elizabeth Drive at Nasese, opened in 2013.

28. Toorak

Coordinates
-18.145, 178.431
In one line
Toorak is a hillside Suva neighbourhood named after Melbourne's fashionable suburb. Once the city's finest address, this gridded quarter of Indo-Fijian and Chinese traders, churches, schools, and the city mosque is now a busy, lived-in slice of working Suva.

29. Samabula

Coordinates
-18.13, 178.448
In one line
Samabula is one of Suva's official city wards, an urban district that mixes homes, workshops, warehouses and shops. With its own busy town centre and a university nearby, it works hard and never quite slows down.

30. Flagstaff

Coordinates
-18.139, 178.44
In one line
Flagstaff is a residential pocket of Suva set on the peninsula's hilly inland slopes.

31. Nasese

Coordinates
-18.153, 178.438
In one line
Nasese is a seafront residential district on Suva's peninsula, fringing Laucala Bay.

32. Muanikau

Coordinates
-18.151, 178.433
In one line
Muanikau is one of Suva's official city wards, an urban district that is mostly industrial and residential. It holds large sporting venues, a university and recreational areas, making it a hub for both work and play in the capital.

33. Tamavua

Coordinates
-18.12, 178.445
In one line
Tamavua is one of Suva's official city wards, an urban district that is mostly residential. Set on the higher inland slopes and later annexed by the capital, it is a settled hillside quarter of homes above the busy city.

34. Suva Flea Market

Coordinates
-18.1388, 178.4285
In one line
The Suva Flea Market is a bustling stall market in the capital's centre, near Terry Walk. Vendors sell handicrafts, sulus, souvenirs, clothing and local ware, making it a colourful, crowded hub of everyday trade and Fijian craft.

35. WG Friendship Plaza

Coordinates
-18.14639, 178.43083
In one line
WG Friendship Plaza is a 28-storey mixed-use skyscraper on McGregor Road in Suva. Rising 112 metres with hotel, apartments and offices, it is Fiji's tallest building and the tallest in Oceania outside Australia and New Zealand.

36. Suva Grammar School

Coordinates
-18.1605, 178.4375
In one line
Founded in 1917 and settled on its Nasese site in 1960, Suva Grammar School is one of Fiji's oldest and most respected secondary schools, famed for academics, athletics, and a long roll of national leaders.

37. Marist Brothers High School

Coordinates
-18.1466, 178.4352
In one line
A Roman Catholic boys' secondary school in Flagstaff, Suva, run by the Marist Brothers since the 1940s, with roots reaching back to their first Fiji school in 1888. It is renowned for academics, faith, and a fierce sporting tradition.

38. Colo-i-Suva Forest Reserve

Coordinates
-18.07, 178.36
In one line
A lush rainforest reserve in the hills above Suva, threaded with trails, natural swimming pools, and waterfalls. Its mahogany plantations date from the 1940s, and in 2018 it joined the Queen's Commonwealth Canopy.

39. Suva Fiji Temple

Coordinates
-18.11972, 178.43856
In one line
The first temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Fiji, dedicated in 2000. Clad in white Italian granite and crowned by a single spire and the angel Moroni, it serves Latter-day Saints across the Pacific.

40. Lami

Coordinates
-18.11667, 178.41667
In one line
A bustling town just northwest of Suva on Viti Levu, incorporated in 1977 and home to around 20,000 people. Its market, shops, and bayside setting make it a busy gateway between the capital and Fiji's western coast.

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