The Ndakunimba Stones are the remains of a 50-foot-tall monolith carved with petroglyphs, located in Dakuniba (pronounced [ɛn dakunimba], town outside the pale), a remote village in Cakaudrove Province on Vanua Levu, Fiji.
[1] The stones were discovered by Bruce and Sheridan Fahnestock on an expedition between 1935 and 1937 for the American Museum of Natural History.
[3] Other legends by the local Mabuco people refer to the stones as the "Vatu Vola", and say it was transported on the Rogovoka[a] on its last voyage from Verata.
[5] Other petroglyphs (ivakatakilakila or signs of Lewaqoroqoro) in the sea caves at Sawa-i-Lau off Yasawa island are supposed to be similar.
[7] Originally the Fahnestocks believed that the symbols were Chinese, and officials at the Fiji Museum in Suva assured them that this was true, but scholars in China disproved this.