Lataro (alternate names: Litaro or Satoshi Island or Pilot Island) is an uninhabited island in

Sanma Province Sanma is a province located in the Northern part of the nation of Vanuatu, occupying the nation's largest island, Espiritu Santo, which is located approximately 2,500 km northeast of Sydney, Australia. The name Sanma is derived from the ...

Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (; ), is an island country in Melanesia located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east o ...

in the Pacific Ocean.

Geography

Lataro lies in Shark Bay off the eastern coast of

Espiritu Santo Espiritu Santo (, ; ) is the largest island in the nation of Vanuatu, with an area of and a population of around 40,000 according to the 2009 census. Geography The island belongs to the archipelago of the New Hebrides in the Pacific region ...

and is flat. The highest point of the island is 88 meters above the sea level. The island spans 1.9 km from the north to the south and 2.3 km from the east to the west.

History

The island has been leased by Anthony Welch, a retired British property investor, since 2007 under a 75-year lease. In 2022, Welch announced that he had unofficially renamed the island ''Satoshi'' in honor of

Satoshi Nakamoto Satoshi Nakamoto ( – 26 April 2011) is the name used by the presumed pseudonymous person or persons who developed bitcoin, authored the bitcoin white paper, and created and deployed bitcoin's original reference implementation. As part of the ...

, the inventor of bitcoin, and that the island would be turned into a home of bitcoin investors.

References

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