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Geographic Locations > Islands > Pacific Islands > Melanesia > Vanuatu
... > Environment and Public Health > Environment > Islands > Pacific Islands > Melanesia > Vanuatu
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Islands > Pacific Islands > Melanesia > Vanuatu
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Preferred term

Vanuatu  

Type

  • Geographical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • New Hebrides

Note

  • an island group in Melanesia; entry term NEW HEBRIDES was its former name

Scope note

  • A republic consisting of an island group in Melanesia, in the southwest Pacific Ocean. Its capital is Port-Vila. It was called New Hebrides until 1980. It was discovered in 1606 by the Portuguese, forgotten for 160 years, then visited by Bougainville in 1768 and Captain Cook in 1774. It was under joint British and French administration from 1906 until it became independent in 1980 under the name of Vanuatu. The name is native, meaning our land. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p833 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p570)

History note

  • 90; was NEW HEBRIDES 1975-89

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009514

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