Vanuatu Emigration and Immigration

Online Records

 * 1876-1914 List of journals of government agents, about 1876-1914 at FamilySearch Catalog; images only

Vanuatu Emigration and Immigration
Polynesian Immigrants Records, 1876-1914, are available at the National Archives of Fiji. These are records of Pacific Islanders who were brought to Fiji as laborers. Although the first ship arrived in 1864, records were not kept until 1876. Laborers came from New Hebrides (Vanuatu), Solomon Islands, Banks and Torres Straits Islands, Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), and Papua New Guinea. There were about 23,000 who went to Fiji. Others were taken to Queensland, Samoa, and New Caledonia.

These records include general shipping records, agents, and recruiters' journals, plantation records, and personnel documents. For more information see this link here.