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March 06, 2006

 

Photo: Fiji Fishing Boat

Fiji Fishing Boat, Melanesia

Photograph by James L. Stanfield

"Evening calm ushers a fishing boat past a reef off Viti Levu, largest of 300-plus islands in this South Pacific success story [Fiji]. Yet tranquil surfaces cannot mask a troubling gulf between native Fijians and citizens of Indian origin."

—From "The Two Worlds of Fiji," October 1995, National Geographic magazine

 

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