Kokomo Private Island Fiji

Kokomo occupies Yaukuve Levu, a hundred and forty acres of rainforest and white sand in the Kadavu group, south of Fiji's main island and reached only by seaplane or helicopter. The island was uninhabited and unused when the Australian developer Lang Walker bought it, so everything on it was placed rather than inherited. Two things about the layout are worth stating plainly. Five and a half acres are given to a working farm that supplies the kitchens, which is a real share of a small island. And the feature the resort is known for is not on the island at all.

The Great Astrolabe Reef rings Yaukuve Levu and runs for many kilometres past it. It is not the resort's water: Kadavu's villages fish it and live along it, and Kokomo's marine work — coral propagation, manta tagging, mangrove replanting — is done on shores and reefs belonging to its neighbours as much as to itself. The resort opened in March 2017 with twenty-one beachfront villas, each with a pool and a walled garden, and five hilltop residences of three to six bedrooms. It runs fully inclusive and makes its own water.

Land put to work. A farm of five and a half acres on a hundred and forty is a decision about what the ground is for. Most estates of this kind spend their acreage on distance; this one spends part of it on food.

The domain is offshore. What guests come for is the reef, and the reef is shared. The island is the base and the boundary; the thing it looks at belongs to Kadavu.

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• Operator and developer record - island of a hundred and forty acres at Yaukuve Levu in the Kadavu group, opened March 2017, developed by Lang Walker; twenty-one beachfront villas with private pools and walled gardens and five hilltop residences
• Tourism Kadavu and operator material - a farm of five and a half acres, or 2.2 hectares, supplying the restaurants; coral propagation, manta tagging and mangrove restoration on neighbouring village shores; access by seaplane or helicopter from Nadi
• The island is described by its developer as having been abandoned before purchase; the account is his own and is not independently established.

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Classified by The Resort Collection House · The Register · Edition 2026 · LHL-E-059
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