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Vanuatu (English: / ˌ v ɑː n u ˈ ɑː t uː / ⓘ VAH-noo-AH-too or / v æ n ˈ w ɑː t uː / van-WAH-too; Bislama and French pronunciation), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (French: République de Vanuatu; Bislama: Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country in Melanesia, located in the South Pacific Ocean.
8 January – A 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes offshore near Sanma, Vanuatu. [2] 1 February – The East Epi submarine volcano erupts in Epi, Vanuatu, for the first time since 2004, sending ash 300 feet into the air, with a 10 kilometer radius danger zone. 8 August – The prime minister of Vanuatu Ishmael Kalsakau reshuffles the cabinet and ...
Athletics. Vanuatu will enter 22 athletes for the Games. Athletics Vanuatu selected 16 athletes in track and field on 2 November 2023. [3] Six para-athletes have also been entered for the Games. [4] Key. Note –Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only. Q = Qualified for the next round.
Cyclone Lola (2023) Severe Tropical Cyclone Lola is the strongest off-season tropical cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere. The first tropical cyclone and severe tropical cyclone of the 2023–24 South Pacific cyclone season, Lola was first noted as an area of low pressure to the northeast of Honiara in the Solomon Islands.
Part of the 2022–23 Australian region and South Pacific cyclone seasons. Severe Tropical Cyclones Judy and Kevin were a pair of intense tropical cyclones that made landfall on the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu within 48 hours of each other in March 2023. They were the fourth and fifth named storms of the 2022–23 South Pacific cyclone ...
James Cook landing at Tanna island, c. 1774. The Vanuatu group of islands first had contact with Europeans in 1606, when the Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, sailing for the Spanish Crown, arrived on the largest island and called the group of islands La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo or "The Southern Land of the Holy Spirit", believing he had arrived in Terra Australis or Australia.
In 2023, Vanuatu was invited for the 2023 Intercontinental Cup tournament held in India which is the team first tournament outside Oceania. In the first match on 9 June 2023, they would face Lebanon but suffered a 3–1 defeat. In the next match, Vanuatu conceded a late goal losing to host India on a narrow 1–0 lost.
Politics of Vanuatu. The Republic of Vanuatu has been a member of the United Nations since the year of its independence in 1980. The country was a particularly active member in the 1980s, when, governed by Prime Minister Father Walter Lini and represented by Ambassador Robert Van Lierop, it was a consistent advocate for decolonisation.