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"Ratu Ilaijia Varani was a chief of Viwa, Bau Island, Tailevu in Fiji in the mid-to-late 19th century. He was an important leader both as a pagan as a Christian. A friend and the right hand of Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau, feared by all, renowned as a warrior, respected as a leader. It cost him a great deal to become a Christian as he did on Good Friday, 1845. As a Christian, his powers passed not from him. His island of Viwa, became a haven of refuge for persecuted Christians. Yet despite the limitation placed on him by his new faith, he was never disloyal to his king. Varani played a vital role in the protection of the early missionaries such as Reverend John Hunt and Wiliam Lyth to the Fiji group in the early 19th century. Under his protection, Christian missionaries managed to spread the influence of Christianity much more quickly than would have been expected. Cannibalism was still practiced at that time in Fiji. His story still stands today to show how a leader may be loyal both to god and country. His energies were expended in endeavor to lead fighting tribes to peace – and in so doing he eventually paid the supreme price at Lovoni, Ovalau. Many Fijian Christians remember Ratu Ilaijia Varani as a fine example of real leadership – leadership which does not lose sight of its Christian responsibility in public life. Memorials One of the four houses at the Lelean Memorial School, a Methodist Church of Fiji run school at its Davuilevu compound at Nausori, Fiji, is named after this great Christian Fijian chief. References * Tippett, A.R., 1954, The Christian (Fiji 1835–1867), Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland * GARRETT, John, 1982, To Live Among the Stars: Christian origins in Oceania,World Council of Churches in association with the Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific, Geneva/Suva. * CABENALEVU, Peni, 1996, ‘Viwa and Ratu Varani/Ko Ratu Ravisa Varani’,in Thornley and Vulaono 1996:73–86. Category:Methodist missionaries in Fiji Category:Methodist Church of Fiji and Rotuma Category:Fijian Methodist missionaries Category:Year of death unknown Category:Year of birth unknown Category:Converts to Methodism Category:Fijian chiefs "
"Fold Island, also known as Foldøya is an offshore island north of Ives Tongue, long and wide, which, with smaller islands south, separate Stefansson Bay to the west from William Scoresby Bay to the east. This feature was seen by Discovery Investigations personnel on the RSS William Scoresby in February 1936, who mapped it as part of the mainland. It was determined to be an island and named Foldøya by Norwegian cartographers who charted this area from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition in January–February 1937. References External links Category:Islands of Kemp Land "
"Aparallactus lineatus, or the lined centipede-eater, is a species of venomous rear-fanged snake in the family Atractaspididae. Geographic range It is endemic to western Africa.Wallach, V. "Aparallactus lineatus (Peters) and Aparallactus niger Boulenger: Two Valid Species from West Africa." Journal of Herpetology 28.1 (1994): 95-99. More specifically, it is found in Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, and Liberia.The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org. Description Dorsally it is olive, with three dark longitudinal lines, to which the specific name, lineatus, refers. Ventrally it is closely speckled with dark gray on the ventral and subcaudal scales. Total length ; tail . Dorsal scales smooth, without pits, in 15 rows. Ventrals 168; anal plate entire; subcaudals 41, entire. Portion of rostral visible from above ⅓ as long as its distance from the frontal. A single prefrontal (very unusual), which forms a suture with the preocular. Frontal 1½ as long as broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals. Nasal entire, in contact with the preocular. One post ocular. A single temporal (most other species of Aparallactus have temporals 1+1). Seven upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye, fifth and sixth in contact with the parietal. First lower labial in contact with its fellow behind the mental. Two pairs of subequal chin shields, the anterior in contact with three lower labials.Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Volume III. London. p. 261. References *Peters, W. 1870. Eine Mitteilung über neue Amphibien (...Uriechis...) des Königlich- zoologischen Museums. Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin. p. 643, plate i, figure 3. Category:Atractaspididae Category:Reptiles described in 1870 "