What island nation in the South Pacific Ocean was, from 1906, jointly managed by France and the UK as the New Hebrides, and became a Republic in 1980?
Vanuatu Vanuatu is a South Pacific Ocean nation made up of roughly 80 islands that stretch 1,300 kilometers. The islands offer scuba diving at coral reefs, underwater caverns and wrecks such as the WWII-era troopship SS President Coolidge. Harborside Port Vila, the nation’s capital and economic center, is on the island of Efate. The city is home to the Vanuatu National Museum, which explores the nation’s Melanesian culture.
What island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean, comprising 32 atolls and one raised coral island, dispersed over 3,500,000 square kilometres, (1,351,000 square miles) was formerly called the Gilbert Islands?
The many hundreds of islands in the western Pacific region known as Micronesia includes five sovereign nations, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and Nauru and which two others?
