Kwakea
Encyclopedia
Kwakéa is an islet located east of Vanua Lava
in the Banks Islands
, Vanuatu
.
The island was purchased by English settlers, Frank and Alice Whitford, in the mid 1890s from the native title owners from Vanua Lava. Frank and Alice created palm plantations before a hurricane wiped out the island on November 25, 1939. The only thing that remains is the Whitford Family Cemetery.
The channel that flows between Kwakea and Vanua Lava is known as Dudley Channel.
. This form is rendered as Qakea in Mota's orthography.
The same island is known under slightly different names in the vernacular languages of the region. In Mwesen and Vurës, it is called Qeke (k͡pʷɛkɛ);
in Mwotlap
, it is Aqke (ak͡pʷkɛ).
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...
in the Banks Islands
Banks Islands
The Banks Islands are a group of islands in northern Vanuatu.Together with the Torres Islands to the northwest, they make up the northernmost province of Torba. The group lies about north of Maewo, and includes Gaua and Vanua Lava, two of the 13 largest islands in Vanuatu...
, 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...
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The island was purchased by English settlers, Frank and Alice Whitford, in the mid 1890s from the native title owners from Vanua Lava. Frank and Alice created palm plantations before a hurricane wiped out the island on November 25, 1939. The only thing that remains is the Whitford Family Cemetery.
The channel that flows between Kwakea and Vanua Lava is known as Dudley Channel.
Name
The spellings Kwakéa (or Kwakea) and Pakea represent two different attempts at transcribing the form k͡pʷakea, which is the island's name in the language MotaMota language
-External links:* in Mota* from Project Canterbury*...
. This form is rendered as Qakea in Mota's orthography.
The same island is known under slightly different names in the vernacular languages of the region. In Mwesen and Vurës, it is called Qeke (k͡pʷɛkɛ);
in Mwotlap
Mwotlap
-External links: *...
, it is Aqke (ak͡pʷkɛ).