Ifira is an offshore island of efate located in
Shefa Province
Shefa is one of the six provinces of Vanuatu, located in the center of the country and including the islands of Epi and Efate and the Shepherd Islands.
The province's name is derived from the initial letters of SHepherd and EFAte.
It has a popula ...
of
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 ...
in the Pacific Ocean.
Geography
Ifira lies off the coast of
Efate Island
Efate (french: Éfaté) is an island in the Pacific Ocean which is part of the Shefa Province in Vanuatu. It is also known as Île Vate.
Geography
It is the most populous (approx. 66,000) island in Vanuatu. Efate's land area of makes it V ...
in Vila harbour. Ifira spans about from the north to the south and from the east to the west. There is newly completed Lapetasi International Container Terminal on the island. The estimated terrain elevation above the sea level is some .
Population
As of 2015, the official local population was 721 people in 146 households.
Local people speak
Mele-Ifira language (or Ifira-Mele) which is a
Polynesian language
The Polynesian languages form a genealogical group of languages, itself part of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family.
There are 38 Polynesian languages, representing 7 percent of the 522 Oceanic languages, and 3 percent of the Austron ...
also spoken in
Mele
Mele () is a '' Comune'' (Municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about west of Genoa.
Mele borders the following municipalities: Genoa, Masone.
References
External links
Official website
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and Efate.
References
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Islands of Vanuatu
Shefa Province