Rotumah, an island in the south Pacific, annexed to the Fiji Islands by Great Britain in 1881, is distant about 300 miles NNW. from the nearest island of that group, of which it is a dependency. Area, 14 sq. m.; pop. 2300, all Christians.
Rotumah
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 823
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