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    New Hebrides

    Former country, now Vanuatu

    New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium and named after the Hebrides in Scotland, was the colonial name for the island group in the South Pacific Ocean that is now Vanuatu. Native people had inhabited the islands for three thousand years before the first Europeans arrived in 1606 from a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós. The islands were named by Captain James Cook in 1774 and subsequently colonised by both the British and the French. The two countries eventually signed an agreement making the islands an Anglo-French condominium that provided for joint sovereignty over the archipelago with two parallel administrations, one British, one French. In some respects, that divide continued even after independence, with schools teaching in either one language or the other. The condominium lasted from 1906 until 1980, when New Hebrides gained its independence as the Republic of Vanuatu. Wikipedia

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  3. Espiritu Santo, for example, saw the establishment of a 6,000-foot long airfield early in the war, carved out of dense jungle by men of US Navy construction battalions. The New Hebrides were defended by troops of the US Army, although ultimately these islands would face no threat of invasion by the Japanese.
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    The most fruitless landfalls during the age of Spanish exploration and imperial greatness were those in the South Seas; yet, perhaps because of the preternatural luxuriance of the volcanic islands that the Iberian mariners discovered, they aroused extraordinary expectations. In the 1560s, Alvaro de Mendana sailed west from Peru in search of the southern continent that bemused all Pacific ...

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