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    Gaua [gawa] (formerly known as Santa Maria Island) is the largest and second most populous of the Banks Islands in Torba Province in northern Vanuatu....
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    Gaua Airport (IATA: ZGU, ICAO: NVSQ) is an airport on the island of Gaua, one of the Banks Islands in the Torba province in Vanuatu. Airport information...
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    The island group lies about 40 km (25 mi) north of Maewo, and includes Gaua and Vanua Lava, two of the 13 largest islands in Vanuatu. In 2009, the islands...
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  • the northwestern coast of Espiritu Santo. Some intersex pigs are kept on Gaua and northeastern Ambae islands, although they are not as prevalent compared...
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  • makes his presence felt as a gust of wind, as he pronounces these words: Gaua Gauekoarentzat, eguna egunezkoarentzat ("the night for Gaueko (the one of...
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    associated calderas (Aeolian Islands, Sicily, Italy) Oceania Mount Gharat (Gaua, Vanuatu) Crater lake De Simone, Girolamo Ferdinando (2014). "On the shape...
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  • Haizea (section Hontz gaua)
    and Hontz Gaua. The first album Haizea was released in 1977 (IOIOTS-149 LS), being more folk than progressive. The second album, Hontz gaua (XOXOA 111...
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  • spoken on Gaua island in Vanuatu. The language’s 300 speakers live mostly in the village of Dorig (IPA: [ⁿdʊˈriɰ]), on the south coast of Gaua. Smaller...
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  • Olrat was an Oceanic language of Gaua island, in northern Vanuatu. It became extinct in 2009, with the death of its last speaker Maten Womal. The name...
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  • Oceanic language spoken on Gaua island in Vanuatu. Its 280 speakers live in the village of Koro, on the south coast of Gaua. Koro is a distinct language...
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  • Lakon is an Oceanic language, spoken on the west coast of Gaua island in Vanuatu. The language name Lakon [laˈkɔn] refers originally to the area where...
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  • Tarasag) is an Oceanic language spoken on Gaua island in Vanuatu. Its 700 speakers live on the northeast coast of Gaua. Nume is a distinct language from its...
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    (797 m), a somma volcano, is the highest peak on the volcanic island of Gaua of the Banks Islands in northern Vanuatu. The peak is located at the centre...
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    Name Population Area in km2 Gaua 2,491 342 Kwakéa 26 1.2 Merelava 647 18 Merig 12 0.5 Mota 683 9.5 Motalava 1,451 24 Ra 189 0.5 Ureparapara 437 39 Vanua...
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    Guest role 2010 Goenkale 3000 Herself ETB 1 TV special 2010 Euskal Kantuen Gaua Herself ETB 1 Christmas Eve TV special 2011 Vaya Semanita ETB 2 Guest role...
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    Vanuatu, after slightly larger Gaua. It is located about 120 km north-northeast of Espiritu Santo and north of Gaua. The name Vanua Lava [βanua laβa]...
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  • Ltd. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-334-04043-9. Adam Simmons, 'A Short Note on Queen Gaua: A New Last Known Ruler of Dotawo (r. around 1520-6)?', Dotawo: A Journal...
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  • Estate, U.S. Virgin Islands Santa Maria Valley AVA, California wine region Gaua, formerly known as Santa Maria Island Santa María (ship), used by Christopher...
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    still used in Judaism to the present day. The Syrian name for Adonis is Gauas. The cult of Inanna and Dumuzid may have been introduced to the Kingdom...
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    Crown, departed El Callao, sailed by the Banks Islands, landing briefly on Gaua (which he called Santa María). Continuing further south, Queirós arrived...
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    (Futuna Airport) Ipota (Ipota Airport) Tanna (White Grass Airport) Torba Gaua (Gaua Airport) Mota Lava (Mota Lava Airport) Sola, Vanua Lava (Vanua Lava Airport)...
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    waterfall located about 3 km inland from the eastern coast of the island of Gaua in northern Vanuatu. The supply of water to the waterfall is from Lake Letas...
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    hoṭal هوٽَلُون‎ hoṭalū̃ هوٽَلُنِ‎ hoṭaluni hotel III ڳَئُون‎ ɠaū̃ ڳَئُونَ‎ ɠaū̃a ڳَئُون‎ ɠaū̃ ڳَئُونِ‎ ɠaūni cow IV نَدِي‎ nadī نَدِيءَ‎ nadīa نَديُون‎ nadyū̃...
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  • (1526–c.1560) Kie Mansur, Sultan (c.1560–?) Kaicili Bungua, Sultan (fl.1570) Gaua, Iskandar Sani, Sultan (pre-1582) Gapi Baguna, Sultan (pre-1582–1599) Mole...
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    Simmons pointed to the existence in the 1520s of Christian Nubian Queen Gaua. There were no traces of an independent Christian kingdom when the Ottomans...
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    Dorig (IPA: [ⁿdʊˈriɣ]) is a village located on the south coast of Gaua, in the Banks Islands of Vanuatu. Its population counts approximately 250 individuals...
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    Banks Islands (Gaua) 13 Dorig Wetamut 300 wwo Banks Islands (Gaua) 14 Koro 250 krf Banks Islands (Gaua) 15 Olrat 3 olr Banks Islands (Gaua) 16 Lakon Lakona...
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    François meeting with Maten Womal, the last storyteller in the Olrat language (Gaua, Vanuatu, 2003). Nationality French Occupation Linguist Academic work Institutions...
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    existence in the 1520s of a Christian Nubian queen who de Barros called Gaua, and suggested that Dotawo continued as an independent polity between the...
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    UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology: 6. Adam Simmons, 'A Short Note on Queen Gaua: A New Last Known Ruler of Dotawo (r. around 1520-6)?', Dotawo: A Journal...
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