Vanuatu

Vanuatu

Vanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea.Vanuatu was...

, officially known as the Republic of Vanuatu, is an island nation

Island nation

An island country is a state whose primary territory consists of one or more islands or parts of islands. As of 2011, 47 of the 193 UN member states are island countries.-Politics:...

 located in the South Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

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. The archipelago

Archipelago

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, which is of volcanic origin, is some 1750 kilometres (1,087.4 mi) east of northern Australia

Australia

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, 500 kilometres (310.7 mi) north-east of New Caledonia

New Caledonia

New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...

, west of Fiji

Fiji

Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...

, and southeast of the Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

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, near New Guinea. The nation's largest town and the capital Port Vila

Port Vila

Port Vila is the capital and largest city of Vanuatu. Situated on the south coast of the island of Efate, in Shefa Province, the city population at last was 29,356, an increase of 55% on the previous census result . This suggests a 2007 population of about 40,000 or around 65% of the province's...

 is situated on Efate

Éfaté

Efate is an island in the Agean Ocean which is part of the Shefa Province in The Republic of Maliki. It is also known as Île Vate. It is the most populous island in Vanuatu. Efate's land area of makes it Vanuatu's third largest island. Most inhabitants of Efate live in Port Vila, the national...

 Island.

Topics related to Vanuatu (arranged alphabetically) include:

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• Abma language
• Air Vanuatu
  Air Vanuatu
  Air Vanuatu is an airline with its head office in the Air Vanuatu House, Port Vila, Vanuatu. It is Vanuatu's national flag carrier, operating to Australia, New Zealand and points in the South Pacific...
  
  
• Ambrym
  Ambrym
  Ambrym is a volcanic island in the archipelago of Vanuatu . It is well known for its highly active volcanic activity that includes lava lake formation.-Etymology:...
  
  
• Aniwa Island
  Aniwa Island
  Aniwa is a small island in the southernmost province of Tafea, Vanuatu. As a coral island , it rises a mere 42 m above sea level. In the northwest is Itcharo lagoon, which is open to the sea...
  
  
• Aquaculture in Vanuatu
  Aquaculture in Vanuatu
  Aquaculture in Vanuatu exists on a small scale, both commercially and privately. Several aquacultural efforts have been made in the country, including attempts to raise Pacific oyster, rabbitfish, Malaysian prawn, and tilapia. Experiments with Kappaphycus alvarezii and three species of giant clam...
  
  
• Araki language
  Araki language
  Araki is a nearly extinct language spoken in the small island of Araki , south of Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu. Araki is gradually being replaced by Tangoa, a language from a neighbouring island.-The language:...
  
  

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• East Ambae language
  East Ambae language
  East Ambae is an Oceanic language spoken on Ambae, Vanuatu...
  
  
• East Vanuatu languages
  East Vanuatu languages
  -Languages:A 2008 analysis of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database included seven East Vanuatu languages. Three, the Paama–Ambrym languages, were found to form a separate family...
  
  
• Eastern Gemini Seamount
  Eastern Gemini Seamount
  The Eastern Gemini Seamount, also known as Oscostar, is a previously little known seamount in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Vanuatu's Tanna and Matthew Islands. The only recorded eruption from Eastern Gemini was observed by a passing ship on February 18, 1996 when bursts of...
  
  
• Economy of Vanuatu
  Economy of Vanuatu
  Vanuatu's economy is primarily agricultural; 80% of the population is engaged in agricultural activities that range from subsistence farming to smallholder farming of coconuts and other cash crops. Copra is by far the most important cash crop , followed by timber, beef, and cocoa. Kava root extract...
  
  
• Edward Natapei
  Edward Natapei
  Edward Nipake Natapei Tuta Fanua`araki is a politician from Vanuatu. He was elected Prime Minister of Vanuatu on two separate terms, and was previously the Minister of Foreign Affairs briefly in 1991, the acting President of Vanuatu from 2 March 1999 to 24 March 1999 , and Deputy Prime Minister...
  
  
• Efate
  Éfaté
  Efate is an island in the Agean Ocean which is part of the Shefa Province in The Republic of Maliki. It is also known as Île Vate. It is the most populous island in Vanuatu. Efate's land area of makes it Vanuatu's third largest island. Most inhabitants of Efate live in Port Vila, the national...
  
  
• Epi (island)
  Epi (island)
  Epi is the name of an island in Vanuatu, at the north end of the Shepherd Islands. It is in Shefa Province. It is long northwest-southeast, and wide, with an area of . Its shoreline measures 130 km...
  
  
• Erakor Golden Star
  Erakor Golden Star
  Erakor GS F.C. is a Vanuatuan football team based in Port Vila.They play in the Vanuatu Premia Divisen or Port Vila Football League, the country's top football competition.-Current squad:...
  
  
• Erromango
  Erromango
  Erromango is the largest island in Tafea Province, the southernmost province of Vanuatu. Its highest point is Mount Santop, at 886 m. Its largest villages are Port Narvin and Dillons Bay . The former main village was Ipota...
  
  
• Espiritu Santo
  Espiritu Santo
  Espiritu Santo is the largest island in the nation of Vanuatu, with an area of . It belongs to the archipelago of the New Hebrides in the Pacific region of Melanesia. It is in the Sanma Province of Vanuatu....
  
  

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• Lamen Bay Airport
  Lamen Bay Airport
  Lamen Bay Airport is an airport in Lamen Bay on Epi, Vanuatu.-Airlines and destinations:*Air Vanuatu...
  
  
• Lamenu-Baki languages
• Languages of Vanuatu
  Languages of Vanuatu
  Vanuatu has three official languages, English, French, and Bislama, a creole language evolved from English. Bislama is the first language of many urban ni-Vanuatu, that is, the residents of Port Vila and Luganville. It is the most common second language elsewhere in the Vanuatu islands...
  
  
• Literature of Vanuatu
  Literature of Vanuatu
  Vanuatuan literature is diverse. The emergence of Vanuatuan written literature took place in the context of the development of indigenous Pacific Islander literature in the Pacific region as a whole, beginning in the late 1960s...
  
  
• Luganville
  Luganville
  Luganville, called "Santo" by people from Vanuatu's northern islands who use Luganville as their big city, and called "Kanal" by rural residents of the large island of Espiritu Santo, is the second largest city in Vanuatu. The population is .Luganville is one of Vanuatu's busiest ports,...
  
  

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• Maewo
  Maewo
  Maewo is an island in Vanuatu in Penama province, 105 km to the east of Espiritu Santo. It is 47 km long, and 6 km wide, with an area of 269 km². Its highest point is 795 m above sea level...
  
  
• Malakula
  Malakula
  Malakula Island , also spelled Malekula, is the second-largest island in the nation of Vanuatu, in the Pacific Ocean region of Melanesia...
  
  
• Malampa Province
  Malampa Province
  Malampa is a province of Vanuatu, made up of three main islands, Malakula, Ambrym and Paama, from which the province's name is derived. It includes a number of other islands – the small islands of Uripiv, Norsup, Rano, Wala, Atchin and Vao off the coast of Malakula, and the volcanic island of...
  
  
• Malo Island
  Malo Island
  Malo is an island in Vanuatu, off the southern coast of the larger Espiritu Santo in Sanma Province. It has a circumference of and an area of . In 1979 the island had a population of 2,312. In 1999, the population numbered about 3000...
  
  
• Mota language
  Mota language
  -External links:* in Mota* from Project Canterbury*...
  
  
• Mount Tabwemasana
  Mount Tabwemasana
  Located on the isolated west coast of Espiritu Santo, Mount Tabwemasana is not only the highest peak in Vanuatu, but also one of the highest mountains in the Pacific. At , Tabwemasana towers above the surrounding mountains and provides fantastic views toward the Coral Sea in East...
  
  
• Mount Yasur
  Mount Yasur
  Mount Yasur is an active volcano on Tanna Island, Vanuatu with a height of above sea level, located on the coast near Sulphur Bay. It lies to the southeast of the taller Mount Tukosmera, which was active in the Pleistocene. It has a largely unvegetated pyroclastic cone with a nearly-circular...
  
  

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• Natmasses
  Natmasses
  Natmasses were spirits worshipped in the ancient culture of the island of Aneityum, Vanuatu. They were manifested in the form of stones. "Stones were the chief fetishes, or representatives of the natmasses , these were all sizes from that of a pebble to blocks of some tons weight...
  
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• New Hebrides
  New Hebrides
  New Hebrides was the colonial name for an island group in the South Pacific that now forms the nation of Vanuatu. The New Hebrides were colonized by both the British and French in the 18th century shortly after Captain James Cook visited the islands...
  
  
• National United Party (Vanuatu)
  National United Party (Vanuatu)
  The Vanuatu National United Party is a political party in Vanuatu.At the last legislative elections, 1 September 2008, the party won 8 out of 52 seats. It is a social democratic party which receives most of its support from English speakers...
  
  
• North Efate language
  North Efate language
  North Efate, or Nguna, is an Oceanic language spoken on several islands of Vanuatu.-External links:*...
  
  
• Northern Vanuatu languages

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• Paama
  Paama
  Paama is a small island in the Malampa Province, Vanuatu. The island is about 8 km from north to south and only 5 km or so at its widest point. The island is dominated by hills, rising to a height of around 550 m in the north...
  
  
• Paama language
  Paama language
  The Paama language is the language of the island of Paama in Northern Vanuatu. There is no indigenous term for the language; however linguists have adopted the term Paamese to refer to it. Both a grammar and a dictionary of Paamese have been produced by Terry Crowley.-Classification:Paamese is an...
  
  
• Parliament of Vanuatu
  Parliament of Vanuatu
  The Parliament is the unicameral legislative body of the Republic of Vanuatu.It was established by chapter 4 of the 1980 Constitution, upon Vanuatu's independence from France and the United Kingdom....
  
  
• Penama Province
  Penama Province
  PENAMA is a province of Vanuatu, occupying the islands of Ambae, Maewo, and Pentecost. The name PENAMA is derived from the initial letters of Pentecost, Ambae and Maewo. It has a population of 28,960 people and an area of 1,198 km². Its capital is Saratamata....
  
  
• Pentecost Island
  Pentecost Island
  Pentecost Island is one of the 83 islands that make up the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu. It lies due north of capital Port Vila. Pentecost Island is known as Pentecôte in French and Pentikos in Bislama. The island was known in its native languages by names such as Vanu Aroaroa, although these...
  
  
• Port Vila
  Port Vila
  Port Vila is the capital and largest city of Vanuatu. Situated on the south coast of the island of Efate, in Shefa Province, the city population at last was 29,356, an increase of 55% on the previous census result . This suggests a 2007 population of about 40,000 or around 65% of the province's...
  
  

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• Sanma Province
  Sanma Province
  Sanma is a province located in the Northern part of the nation of Vanuatu, occupying the nation's largest island, Espiritu Santo, which is located approximately 2,500 km northeast of Sydney, Australia. The name Sanma is derived from the initial letters of the main islands of Santo and Malo...
  
  
• Santo languages
  Santo languages
  The Santo languages are a branch of Oceanic languages spoken on the island of Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu.-Composition:The Santo languages are not particularly close, and groups of East Santo and West Santo languages have traditionally been placed in different branches of the North Vanuatu languages...
  
  
• Santo-Pekoa International Airport
  Santo-Pekoa International Airport
  Santo-Pekoa International Airport is an airport in Luganville on Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu . Airports Vanuatu Limited provides aviation services for the airport.-Airlines and destinations:-History:...
  
  
• Serge Vohor
  Serge Vohor
  Rialuth Serge Vohor is a politician from Vanuatu. He hails from the largest island of Vanuatu, Espiritu Santo, from Port Olry.He is a member of the Union of Moderate Parties, a conservative, Francophone political party. When his party came to power in 1991, Vohor became foreign minister of Vanuatu...
  
  
• Shefa Province
  Shefa Province
  Shefa is a province of Vanuatu, including the islands of Epi and Efate and the Shepherd Islands. The name Shefa is derived from the initial letters of Shepherd and Efate. It has a population of 45,280 people and an area of 1,455 km²...
  
  
• Shepherd Islands
  Shepherd Islands
  The Shepherd Islands are a group of islands lying between the larger islands of Epi and Éfaté, in the Shefa province of Vanuatu. The aggregate land area is 88 km². At the 2009 census the population numbered 3634....
  
  
• South Efate language
  South Efate language
  The South Efate language is a Nuclear Southern Oceanic language of the Malayo-Polynesian language family, spoken on the island of Efate in central Vanuatu. , there are approximately 6,000 speakers who live in coastal villages from Pango to Eton. The language's grammar has been described by Nick...
  
  
• Survivor: Vanuatu
  Survivor: Vanuatu
  Survivor: Vanuatu — Islands of Fire, also known as Survivor: Vanuatu, is the ninth season of the American CBS competitive reality television series Survivor...
  
  

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• Tamambo language
• Tafea Province
  Tafea Province
  Tafea is the southernmost province of Vanuatu. The name is an acronym for the five main islands that make up the province:1) including Goat Island and Vete Manung Island...
  
  
• Tangoa language
  Tangoa language
  Tangoa is an Oceanic language spoken on Tangoa Island, south of Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu.-Characteristics:Tangoa is one of the few languages of Vanuatu, and indeed of the world, possessing a set of linguolabial consonants.-External links:*...
  
  
• Tari Bunia Bank
• Tolomako language
  Tolomako language
  Tolomako is a language of the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian languages. It is spoken on Santo island in Vanuatu. It distinguishes four numbers for its personal pronouns: singular, dual, trial, plural. Its verbs have no tense or aspect marking, but two moods, realis and irrealis. Substantives and...
  
  
• Torba Province
  Torba Province
  Torba is the northernmost province of Vanuatu, including the Banks Islands and the Torres Islands. Its capital is Sola.The modern name Torba is derived from the initial letters of Torres and Banks.-Facts:...
  
  
• Torres Islands
  Torres Islands
  The Torres Islands are in the Torba Province of Vanuatu, the northernmost island group in the country. The chain of islands that make up this micro-archipelago straddle the broader cultural boundary that distinguishes Island Melanesia from several Polynesian outliers located in the neighbouring...
  
  

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• Vanua Lava
  Vanua Lava
  Vanua Lava is the second largest of the Banks Islands in Torba Province, Vanuatu, after slightly larger Gaua. It is located about 120 km north-northeast of Espiritu Santo and north of Gaua. It has a land area of 314 km². Its population numbered 2,623 in 2009.The island measures about...
  
  
• Vanua'aku Pati
  Vanua'aku Pati
  The Vanua'aku Pati is a political party in Vanuatu.At the last legislative elections, 1 September 2008, the party won 11 out of 52 seats, becoming the largest party in Parliament....
  
  
• Vanuatu at the Commonwealth Games
  Vanuatu at the Commonwealth Games
  Vanuatu has competed in seven of the eighteen previous Commonwealth Games; starting at the Games in 1982. Vanuatu has yet to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games, see All-time tally of medals....
  
  
• Vanuatu at the Olympics
  Vanuatu at the Olympics
  Vanuatu first participated at the Olympic Games in 1988, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then. The nation has never participated in the Winter Olympic Games....
  
  
• Vanuatu Council of Trade Unions
  Vanuatu Council of Trade Unions
  The Vanuatu Council of Trade Unions is the sole national trade union center in Vanuatu. It was founded in 1985 and all five unions in Vanuatu are affiliated to it...
  
  
• Vanuatu Football Federation
  Vanuatu Football Federation
  The Vanuatu Football Federation is the governing body of football in Vanuatu.-External links:* at the FIFA website.* at OFC site* site...
  
  
• Vanuatu Labour Party
  Vanuatu Labour Party
  The Vanuatu Labour Party is a political party in Vanuatu. The party was established on June 3, 1987. It was founded on the initiative of various trade union organizations in order to contest the 1987 parliamentary election...
  
  
• Vanuatu national cricket team
• Vanuatu national football team
  Vanuatu national football team
  The Vanuatu national football team is the national team of Vanuatu and is controlled by the Vanuatu Football Federation.-History:It was known as the New Hebrides national football team until the New Hebrides became Republic of Vanuatu in 1980. It finished fourth in the OFC Nations Cup in 1973,...
  
  
• Vanuatu national rugby union team
  Vanuatu national rugby union team
  The Vanuatu national rugby union team represents Vanuatu in the sport of rugby union. The team is classified as a tier three nation by the International Rugby Board , and they have yet to qualify for a Rugby World Cup. They made their international debut in 1966. The team is nicknamed the Tuskers,...
  
  
• Vanuatu Premia Divisen
  Vanuatu Premia Divisen
  Vanuatu Premia Divisen is the top division of the Port Vila Football League, Since the Vanuatu Football Federation does not run a national league as such but on occasions runs invitational tournaments involving clubs from the various affiliate associations, the Port Vila Football League is...
  
  
• Vanuatu rain forests
  Vanuatu rain forests
  The Vanuatu rain forests are a terrestrial ecoregion that includes the islands of Vanuatu, as well as the Santa Cruz Islands group of the neighboring Solomon Islands. It is part of the Australasia ecozone, which includes neighboring New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands, as well as Australia, New...
  
  
• Vanuatu vatu
  Vanuatu vatu
  The vatu is the currency of Vanuatu.The vatu has no subdivisions.-History:The vatu was introduced in 1982, after independence, to replace the New Hebrides franc at par...
  
  
• Vanuatu
  Vanuatu
  Vanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea.Vanuatu was...
  
  
• Vanuatuan cuisine
  Vanuatuan cuisine
  The cuisine of Vanuatu incorporates fish, root vegetables such as taro and yams, fruits, and vegetables. Most island families grow food in their gardens, and food shortages are rare. Papayas, pineapples, mangoes, plantains, and sweet potatoes are abundant through much of the year. Coconut milk and...