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AUYAneityum (airport; Vanuatu)
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Dan McGarry, the media director at the Vanuatu Daily Post, said he heard only of three small wave surges hitting the southern island of Aneityum.
Tsunami warning after earthquake hits Pacific Ocean; According to the US Geological Survey, the quake struck about 104 miles east of Tadine in New Caledonia at a shallow depth of six miles
Hiu, the northernmost island, is 530 miles from the southernmost one, Aneityum. The only two cities, the capital Port-Vila and Luganville on the Espiritu Santo island (the name of which comes from the aforementioned Fernandes de Queiros, who discovered the island under Spanish patronage, but who himself was Portuguese), hold no more than 21 per cent of the population.
Building a Republic
The London Missionary Society established missions in the southern islands from 1839, Presbyterians spread from Aneityum in 1848 throughout the southern and central archipelago, Anglicans throughout the northern islands from 1849, Catholics from the 1880s, the Church of Christ and Seventh-day Adventists from the early 20th century, while an array of new evangelical churches has emerged in the last two decades.
Braed braes in Vanuatu: both gifts and commodities?
In addition to bringing revenue to the nearby Aneityum community and providing real cultural experiences and engagement for cruise passengers, Carnival Australia believes the Mystery Island business model could become the template for opportunities elsewhere.
Carnival Australia: managing the impact of tourism: the growth of cruise holidays is placing increased demand on operators to manage the environmental and social impact on remote island communities
In 1848 they went to Aneityum in the New Hebrides and served for 24 years.
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<< New heaven and new earth >> translation and conversion on Aneityum, Journal of Pacific History 41 (3) 2006, 293-311.
Bibliography on mission studies
During the next few years, more LMS teachers from Samoa and Rarotonga were stationed on Tanna, Erromanga, Futuna, Aneityum, Aniwa, and Efate.
Scottish missionaries and the governance of the New Hebrides
(25.) This epidemic of measles, dysentery, and pneumonia had a wider impact on the whole colony from October 1860 to early 1861 before causing devastation in Tanna and Aneityum in Vanuatu (Sand 1995: 306; Douglas 1998: 303-305).
Locality, mobility and governmentality in colonial/postcolonial New Caledonia: the case of the Kouare tribe (xua Xaragwii), Thio (Coo)
In 1848, they travelled to Aneityum in the New Hebrides, where they served for 24 years.
The Presbytery of Pictou is a treasure of denominational history. (Presbytery Profile)
(10) But Dravidian kinship systems are known from a few Oc- speaking societies in the Solomons (Guadalcanal and possibly Florida, Ysabel, and San Cristobal), South Vanuatu (Tanna, Aneityum, West- Futuna-Aniwa) and Fiji (Hage 2001).
East Papuan kinship systems: Bougainville
I have argued elsewhere (2002) that the prospect of female sociality was always a prime attraction of Christian gatherings for women in places such as Aneityum, south Vanuatu, and New Caledonia where solitary women and nuclear families were the main productive units in taro gardening.
Christianity, tradition, and everyday modernity: towards an anatomy of women's groupings in Melanesia
Douglas reiterates her earlier argument (2002) that the prospect of sociality per se was a 'prime attraction' for women in Aneityum, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia where, she adjudges, precolonial life was peculiarly solitary for women.
Epilogue
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