Conway Reef

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Islands of Fiji Principal islands Viti Levu Vanua Levu Significant outliers Conway Reef Kadavu Taveuni Rotuma Archipelagos Kadavu Group Lau Islands Lomaiviti Islands Mamanuca Islands Moala Islands Ringgold Isles Rotuma Group Vanua Levu Group Viti Levu Group Yasawa Islands

Conway Reef, known in Fijian as Ceva-I-Ra (pronounced [ðeβaira]), is a three-kilometer long coral reef situated at 21.77° South and 174.52° East. It has one small cay, about 600 meters long and 1.5 meters high. The reef is uninhabited.

In 1838 the British naval officer Captain Drinkwater Bethune of HMS Conway, first came across the reef and recorded it however it was first mapped by the British several years later by Captain Denham of HMS Herald. Two shipwrecks (1979 and 1981) have occurred on the reef.

It was reported in 1983 that there was some vegetation on the cay, but it was bare by 1985.