Malolo Lailai

Malolo Lailai is the centre of tourism in the Mamanuca Islands, and consists of four resorts, a number of residential houses, a marina and a golf course.

The Nadroga chief Ratu Kini sold the uninhabited island in 1872 to John Thomson for cotton planting.

In November 1891, they sold it James Borron who owned several plantations throughout Fiji and who leased Malolo Lailai to the Chinese family Wong Ket for 70 years to plant coconut palms and harvest copra.

In the early 1960s, the island was sold to Richard "Dick" Smith, Reginald Raffe and Sir Ian MacFarlane.

[2] In 2000, MacFarlane sold his parcel of the island to the other two partners and those 400 acres (162 ha) are now used for organic farming and the continuation of the coconut plantation for the supply of the resorts.