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Vanuatu is located over 2,000 km north east from Sydney, Australia, and has a total area of 14,800 km2. It has 13 islands and 70 islets. The majority of the population lives on the four main islands of Tanna, Efate and Espiritu Santo. The capital, Port Vila, is on Efate. Vanuatu frequently has volcanic eruptions and earthquakes (BBCNews 2008; CIA 2008; SBS 2004; Zocca 2006).
Vanuatu was formerly named by Captain James Cook as the New Hebrides and was administered by the British and French from the nineteenth century and was formalized in 1906 as an Anglo-French Condominium. Vanuatu then became independent from both France and Britain in 1980. There is still mistrust between Anglophones and Francophones, the former being largely Protestant and the later Catholic. After independence many church schools were taken over by the government (Zocca 2006).
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Bouma, G.D., Ling, R., Pratt, D. (2010). Vanuatu. In: Religious Diversity in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3389-5_27
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