Mountain · Fiji
Tomanivi
Tomanivi is the highest mountain in Fiji, an extinct volcano on the island of Viti Levu whose summit is wrapped in dripping cloud forest. Maps once called it Mount Victoria.
Where is Tomanivi?
Tomanivi is part of the Central highlands of Viti Levu.
You will find it in: Fiji.
Summit: 17.633° S, 178.017° E
The story behind it
For a long time maps called this peak Mount Victoria; today it carries its Fijian name, Tomanivi. The volcano stopped erupting so long ago that rainforest has taken over every slope, and the rock underneath is around 150 million years old. A footpath starts in the village of Navai and climbs through mud, roots and tree ferns to the top. The air up there stays cool and wet, because Tomanivi holds a large share of the highest mountain forest in Fiji. Those woods are the best remaining home of the red-throated lorikeet, a tiny parrot that almost nobody ever gets to see, and of the long-legged warbler and the pink-billed parrotfinch. Rain that falls here runs off into the Rewa, the Navua, the Sigatoka and the Ba, the four big rivers of Viti Levu. Nobody knows who stood on the summit first, because people on the island knew this mountain long before anyone wrote anything down.
Find it on the globe
Tomanivi is there as a small peak with its own shape — a horn, a ridge, a volcano — standing on the surface. From far away the planet is only a blue ball; detail arrives as you zoom in, and this one appears once you are close enough. Open it on the globe.
It sits at its real coordinates, not near them — the same numbers listed in the facts above. Switch off the layer for this kind of place and it disappears again; the buttons for that are down the right-hand edge.
Questions children ask
How high is Tomanivi?
Tomanivi reaches 1 324 metres. That is modest next to an Alpine peak, but it is the highest point for hundreds of kilometres of open Pacific in every direction.
Where is Tomanivi?
In the northern highlands of Viti Levu, the largest island of Fiji, in the South Pacific. The path to the top starts at the village of Navai.
Which animals live on Tomanivi?
The wet mountain forest shelters the red-throated lorikeet, one of the rarest parrots in the world, along with the long-legged warbler, the shy ground-dove and the pink-billed parrotfinch. Birdwatchers count these slopes among the most important places in Fiji.
Where these numbers come from
Every figure on this page was checked against public reference sources before publication. Where sources genuinely disagree, the text says so.
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