3 ATLASES

History of Fiji in maps

Fiji as it appears in 3 interactive history atlases, from 1914 to 1991: Fiji. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.

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Map of the world in November 1975, showing Fiji — MAP OF THE WORLD IN NOVEMBER 1975

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949 · North Atlantic Treaty: Algerian departments cease to apply from 3 July 1962 · Berlin’s four-power status and its termination · The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall · Cliopatria v0.2.1 historical polities · Decolonization of Asia and Africa, 1945–1960 · United Nations Command: the 1953 armistice · NATO membership chronology · Natural Earth v5.1.2 country geography · Natural Earth administrative references · The collapse of the Soviet Union · South Yemen: independence and alignment chronology · South Yemen: Soviet relationship, 1971 intelligence estimate

Source details

US government historical publication. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or prose reproduced
NATO, treaty footnote 2. Historical treaty facts cited; no artwork or prose reproduced
US government historical publication. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or prose reproduced
US government historical publication. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or prose reproduced
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Selected dated records; documented component selection, unions and shared-edge extraction.
US Department of State, Office of the Historian. US government publication
United Nations Command. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or prose reproduced
NATO. Historical facts cited; no artwork or prose reproduced
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain · Full source components and holes retained; documented historical unions and repairs.
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
US Department of State, Office of the Historian. US government publication
US Department of State. US government historical publication
US Department of State, FRUS 1969–1976, volume XXIV, document 182. US government historical publication

This political-alignment geography uses national and administrative extents; it does not map every military front. Modern-reference perimeters are explicitly recorded where no more suitable reviewed historical geometry was adopted. All source parts and holes are retained.

The Soviet, Yugoslav, Czechoslovak, Sudanese and other historical unions remove later internal borders. Occupation and armistice lines retain their separate meanings.

South Yemen uses the 1969 source as a geographic proxy for earlier Aden/protectorates. The boundaries and status of individual protectorates are not resolved at this scale.

Israeli-controlled extents follow dated published source references. The coarse 1976–1982 record does not resolve each stage of the Sinai withdrawal, so chapter 10 uses the 1983 post-withdrawal source.

Dated assignments correct omissions across the legacy views: independent Algeria is non-aligned after July 1962; Greece and Turkey join NATO in 1952, and Spain in 1982. South Yemen is separate from North Yemen, with British administration before late 1967 and the Soviet-aligned Marxist government after 1969.

proxy: 1945–1990, later municipal exterior reference · proxy: Natural Earth v5.1.2 contemporary reference · reconstruction: 1945–1991 · reconstruction: 1945–1991 geographic union · reconstruction: 1952–1991 · reconstruction: 1953 · reconstruction: 1958–1989 · reconstruction: 1960–1991 · reconstruction: 1973–1975 · reconstruction: Postwar Yugoslav reference · vector: 1936–1986 · vector: 1953–2023 · vector: 1958–1959 · vector: 1967–1972 · vector: 1969–1975 · vector: 1969–1986 · vector: 1976–1978

Layer records and reconstruction methods

What was Fiji before it was Fiji? The sections below follow this land through every era covered by the Maps of History atlases: who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed. Each line links to the dated map. Modern borders serve as an approximation, as each atlas says on the map itself.