Geographicals

Vanuatu

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)

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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)

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  • New Hebrides

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Indexed with the subheadings epidemiology, ethnology.

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

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90; was NEW HEBRIDES 1975-89

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  1. Z01w.639w.760w.590w.736w
  2. Z01w.678w.101w.590w.736w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Vanuatu. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009514. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009514
  2. Vanuatu. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanuatu
  3. Vanuatu. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q686