The Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) carried out a marine survey for Fiji around the south coast of Viti Levu. This report presents and describes the high-resolution bathymetric mapping survey (MBES) carried out for the south coast of Viti Levu, Fiji, from Naselai (Suva) to Momi (Nadi) over a period of 8 weeks. The resultant data compilation was used to produce nine bathymetry charts for the south coast of Viti Levu at a scale of 1 : 50 000.
The New Guinea region evolved within the obliquely and rapidly converging Australian and Pacific plate boundary zone. It is arguably one of the most tectonically complex regions of the world, and its geodynamic evolution involved microplate formation and rotation, lithospheric rupture to form ocean basins, arc-continent collision, subduction polarity reversal, collisional orogenesis, ophiolite obduction, and exhumation of (ultra)high-pressure metamorphic rocks.