ROUGH SKETCH MAP OF UVEA ISLAND (MAINLAND) SHOWING ZONES OF VEGETATION NB Note garden areas appear sporadically in both coconut areas and short forest areas and are eating into the original tall forest areas. The custom is to plant coconuts after the garden crop is harvested thus extending such areas. Roughly the lines of demarcation shown are as near accurate as possible in such a mixed and irregular vegetation as exists on the island. (see below also NB) = area of tall original forest = area of shorter original forest includes about 10% garden area = area under more or less permanent culture coconuts etc. contains about 20% garden culture = swamp lands including areas where basket mangrove appear shown by black crosses and pencil shading Taru cultivation covers all the inland ends of these and most isolated arms. = scanty swam vegetation on salt pan lands = abrupt coral outcrops 40-100' A.S.L. = area of sea deposited sand banks along lagoon side. Almost 100% coconut vegetation with a little sand hill shrubs etc. along sea margin, few casuarinas etc. near water's edge mostly. = low wind blown ti tree scrubs from a few inches high near the coast to 15 ft. in- land and on knolls and in hollows. NB Because in a map of this scale it is impossible to show such one has to bear in mind in looking at this sketch that throughout the whole island especially in the central part long thin arms of low original forest and in a few cases tall original forest growing on coral dykes etc. have been left. (shown slightly in the latter case) and these extend far into the coconut planted areas. Often they are only 20 yds. in width and seldom more than 50 yds. and very often of considerable length (up to one mile). These strips carry heavy population of bird life. In many cases they completely surround cultivations of varying sized areas. In tall forest areas these are generally considerably wider but not as long but in short forest areas are long and narrow.