Maewo

picture info	Maewo Maewo (; formerly ''Aurora Island'') is an island in Vanuatu in Penama province, 105 km to the east of Espiritu Santo. It is 47 km long, and 6 km wide, with an area of 269 km2. Its highest point is 795 m above sea level. In 2009 the island had a population of almost 3,600. Maewo is covered with dense vegetation: tropical forests in which banyan trees grow. Name The name ''Maewo'' is thought to have come from Mota or Raga as an attempt to transcribe the pronunciation . In the local languages it is spelled as ''N̄waewo'' . Other names for the island include Mwerlap ''N̄wēw'' and Mwotlap ''Am̄ew'' (with the locative prefix ''a-''). All of these terms are thought to have come from Proto-North-Central Vanuatu (and Proto-Torres–Banks) ''mʷaewo''. History First recorded sighting of Maewo Island by Europeans was by the Spanish expedition of Pedro Fernández de Quirós Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Maewo-Naone Airport Maewo-Naone Airport is an airport on Maewo in Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of no .... Airlines and destinations References Airports in Vanuatu Penama Province {{vanuatu-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Penama Penama is one of the six provinces of Vanuatu, located in the northeast of the country and consisting of three major islands: * Ambae (or Aoba) * Maewo * Pentecost The name Penama is derived from the initial letters of PENtecost, Ambae and MAewo. Population It has a population of 30,819 (2009 census) people and an area of 1,198 km2. Its capital is Saratamata Saratamata is the capital of Penama Province of the island country of Vanuatu.Saratamata ca. 150 m on Ambae, but there are plans to move the capital to a different island due to a volcanic eruption Islands References External links * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Islands Of Vanuatu This is a list of islands of Vanuatu by province, largely from north to south, subdivided by archipelago when appropriate. Vanuatu is usually said to contain 83 islands. Islands Torba Province Torres Islands Hiw Metoma (uninhabited, but formerly inhabited) Tegua Ngwel (uninhabited) Linua * Lo *Toga Banks Islands *Vet Tagde * Ureparapara *Rowa Islands (Reef Islands) Enwut (uninhabited) Lemeur Vanua Lava * Kwakea Leneu Nawila Ravenga Gaua (Santa Maria Island) Mota Mota Lava (Saddle) *Ra Island Merig *Mere Lava Sanma Province Espiritu Santo * Dany Island *Araki Island Elephant Island Dolphin Island * Sakao * Malohu Malparavu Maltinerava Malvapevu Malwepe Oyster Island Tangoa * Bokissa * Lataro Malo *Asuleka * Malotina * Malokilikili Aore Tutuba Mavea ** Lathi Penama Province * Pentecost Island Ambae (Aoba) Maewo * Malampa Province Malakula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Raga Language Raga (also known as Hano) is the language of northern Pentecost Island in Vanuatu. Like all Vanuatu languages, Raga belongs to the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian languages family. In old sources the language is sometimes referred to by the names of villages in which it is spoken, such as Bwatvenua (Qatvenua), Lamalanga, Vunmarama and Loltong. It is the most conservative language of Pentecost Island, having preserved final vowels while also retaining the five-vowel system inherited from Proto-Oceanic, compared to other languages spoken on the island, which have all developed additional vowels in addition to pervasive vowel deletion. With an estimated 6,500 native speakers (in the year 2000), Raga is the second most widely spoken of Pentecost's five native languages (after Apma), and the seventh largest vernacular in Vanuatu as a whole. There are significant communities of Raga speakers on Maewo island and in Port Vila and Luganville as a result of emigration from Pentecos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Provinces Of Vanuatu Vanuatu has been divided into six province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...s since 1994. The names in English of all provinces are derived from the initial letters of their constituent islands: Municipalities The provinces are in turn divided into municipalities headed by a council and a mayor elected from among the members of the council. In the Tafea Province for example are the following municipalities (council areas): North Erromango South Erromango North Tanna West Tanna Middle Bush Tanna Whitesands South West Tanna South Tanna The islands of Aniwa, Futuna and Aneityum appear to consist of one municipality each. Island regions (historical) From 1985 to 1994 it was divided into eleven island regions: Districts (historical) During the Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country 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 the Solomon Islands, and west of Fiji. Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesians, Melanesian people. The first Europeans to visit the islands were a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, 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 of Great Britain and Ireland, 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 condominiu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Rainfall Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity. Rain is a major component of the water cycle and is responsible for depositing most of the fresh water on the Earth. It provides water for hydroelectric power plants, crop irrigation, and suitable conditions for many types of ecosystems. The major cause of rain production is moisture moving along three-dimensional zones of temperature and moisture contrasts known as weather fronts. If enough moisture and upward motion is present, precipitation falls from convective clouds (those with strong upward vertical motion) such as cumulonimbus (thunder clouds) which can organize into narrow rainbands. In mountainous areas, heavy precipitation is possible where upslope flow is maximized within windward sides of the terrain at elevation which forces moist air to condense and fall out as rainfall along the sides of mountains. On the leeward side of mountains, desert climates can e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Pedro Fernandes De Queirós Pedro Fernandes de Queirós ( es, Pedro Fernández de Quirós) (1563–1614) was a Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain. He is best known for his involvement with Spanish voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean, in particular the 1595–1596 voyage of Álvaro de Mendaña y Neira, and for leading a 1605–1606 expedition that crossed the Pacific in search of Terra Australis. Early life Queirós (or Quirós as he signed) was born in Évora, Portugal in 1563. As the Portuguese and Spanish monarchies had been unified under the king of Spain in 1580 (following the vacancy of the Portuguese throne, which lasted for sixty years, until 1640, when the Portuguese monarchy was restored), Queirós entered Spanish service as a young man and became an experienced seaman and navigator. In April 1595 he joined Álvaro de Mendaña y Neira on his voyage to colonize the Solomon Islands, serving as chief pilot. After Mendaña's death in October 1595, Queirós is credited with taking comma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Proto-Torres–Banks Language Proto-Torres-Banks (abbr. PTB) is the Linguistic reconstruction, reconstructed ancestor of the Torres-Banks languages, seventeen languages of the Torres Islands, Torres and Banks Islands of Vanuatu. Like all Languages of Vanuatu#List of Vanuatu’s indigenous languages, indigenous languages of Vanuatu, it belongs to the Oceanic languages, Oceanic branch of the Austronesian languages. Descendants Proto-Torres-Banks is the shared ancestor of the following modern languages: Hiw language, Hiw, Lo-Toga language, Lo-Toga, Lehali language, Lehali, Löyöp language, Löyöp, Volow language, Volow, Mwotlap language, Mwotlap, Lemerig language, Lemerig, Vera'a language, Vera'a, Vurës language, Vurës, Mwesen language, Mwesen, Mota language, Mota, Nume language, Nume, Dorig language, Dorig, Koro language (Vanuatu), Koro, Olrat language, Olrat, Lakon language, Lakon, and Mwerlap language, Mwerlap. Reconstruction Proto-Torres-Banks, as reconstructed with the comparative method from the attest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mwotlap Language Mwotlap (pronounced ; formerly known as ''Motlav'') is an Oceanic language spoken by about 2,100 people in Vanuatu. The majority of speakers are found on the island of Motalava in the Banks Islands, with smaller communities in the islands of Ra (or ''Aya'') and Vanua Lava, as well as migrant groups in the two main cities of the country, Santo and Port Vila. Mwotlap was first described in any detail in 2001, by the linguist Alexandre François. Volow, which used to be spoken on the same island, may be considered a dialect or a separate language. The language Name The language is named after the island. Geographic distribution Mwotlap is spoken by about 2,100 people in the Banks Islands, in the North of Vanuatu. Among them, 1,640 live on the island of Mota Lava and its neighbor island, Ra. It is also spoken by a few hundred people living elsewhere in Vanuatu: * Vanua Lava, particularly in the northeast * Several other northern Vanuatu islands including Ureparapara, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mwerlap Language Mwerlap is an Oceanic language spoken in the south of the Banks Islands in Vanuatu. Its 1,100 speakers live mostly in Merelava and Merig, but a fair proportion have also settled the east coast of Gaua island.François (2012: 97). Besides, a number of Mwerlap speakers live in the two cities of Vanuatu, Port Vila and Luganville. Name The language is named after ''Mwerlap'', the native name of Merelava island. Phonology Mwerlap has 12 phonemic vowels. These include 9 monophthongs and 3 diphthongs . Grammar The system of personal pronouns in Mwerlap contrasts clusivity, and distinguishes three numbers (singular, dual, plural). Spatial reference in Mwerlap is based on a system of geocentric (absolute) directionals, which is in part typical of Oceanic languages, and yet innovative. François (2015:) 173-175). References Bibliography * * . * * * External linksLinguistic map of north Vanuatu, showing range of MwerlapOnline material in Mwerlap (Merlav) audio recordings, do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Aurora Islands The Aurora Islands was a group of three phantom islands first reported in 1762 by the Spanish merchant ship ''Aurora'' while sailing from Lima to Cadiz. The Aurora's officers reported sighting them again in 1774. The Spanish ship ''San Miguel'' fixed their location at 52°37'S, 47°49'W. On 20 February 1794, they were sighted again by a Spanish survey ship, the corvette ''Atrevida'', which as part of the Alejandro Malaspina circumnavigation had been sent to confirm them. Their reported location was approximately halfway between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia at . The latitude is considered perfect; the longitude was based on the meridian of the astronomical observatory, San Fernando, Cádiz. The islands were last reportedly sighted in 1856, but continued to appear on maps of the South Atlantic until the 1870s. It is possible that the Aurora islands were "discovered" by Amerigo Vespucci in his 1501/1502 voyage with a Portuguese expedition. In his "Lettera" of 1504, hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

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