Place:Vanuatu

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NameVanuatu
Alt namesNew Hebridessource: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) p 833
Nouvelles-Hébridessource: Rand McNally Atlas (1986) I-157
Republic of Vanuatusource: Wikipedia
Ripablik blong Vanuatusource: Britannica Book of the Year (1991) p 730; Britannica Book of the Year (1993) p 747; NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
TypeCountry
Coordinates16°S 167°E
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Vanuatu ( or  ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (; Bislama: Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast of the Solomon Islands, and west of Fiji.

Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesian people. The first Europeans to visit the islands were a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Fernandes de Queirós, who arrived on the largest island, Espíritu Santo, in 1606. Queirós claimed the archipelago for Spain, as part of the colonial Spanish East Indies, and named it .

In the 1880s, France and the United Kingdom claimed parts of the archipelago, and in 1906, they agreed on a framework for jointly managing the archipelago as the New Hebrides through an Anglo-French condominium.

An independence movement arose in the 1970s, and the Republic of Vanuatu was founded in 1980. Since independence, the country has become a member of the United Nations, Commonwealth of Nations, Organisation internationale de la Francophonie and the Pacific Islands Forum.

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