Vanuatu

Cave drawings, [[Lelepa Island Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (; ), is an island country in Melanesia, 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 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, , and the Pacific Islands Forum. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Published 1978
    [Vanuatu : s.n.] ; 1978.
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    Published 1989
    Port Vila, Vanuatu, South Western Pacific : Portsmouth, Hampshire, U.K. : Attorney-General's Chambers ; To be obtained outside Vanuatu from Grosvenor Press (Portsmouth), [1989]
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    Published 1982
    Port-Vila [Vanuatu] : National Planning Office, [1982?]
    xviii, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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    Published 1984
    [Port-Vila, Vanuatu] : National Planning Office, [1984]
    344 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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    Published 1990
    [Port Vila, Vanuatu : National Planning and Statistics Office, 1990?]
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    Published 1992
    Port Vila, Vanuatu : National Planning and Statistics Office, [1992?]
    vii, 209 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
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    Published 1988
    Port Vila, Vanuatu : Government of the Republic of Vanuatu, [1988]
    3 v. in 1 : map ; 28 cm.
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    Published 1980
    London : Her Majesty's Stationery Office, [1980]
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