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    Tanna (sometimes misspelled Tana) is an island in southern Vanuatu. Tanna is the most populous island of Tafea Province, and the third most populous in...
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    John Frum (category Religion in Vanuatu)
    John Prum) is a figure associated with cargo cults on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. He is often depicted as an American World War II serviceman who will...
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    southernmost of the six provinces of Vanuatu. The name is an acronym for the five main islands that make up the province: Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna, Erromango and...
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  • Tanna is a 2015 Australian-Ni-Vanuatu film set on the island of Tanna in the South Pacific, depicting the true story of a couple who decided to marry...
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    International Airport    Air Vanuatu Flight 241 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight between Whitegrass Airport, Tanna and Bauerfield International...
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  • The nine South Vanuatu languages form a family of the Southern Oceanic languages, spoken in Tafea Province (Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna, Erromango, and Aniwa)...
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    Vanuatu (English: /ˌvɑːnuˈɑːtuː/ VAH-noo-AH-too or /vænˈwɑːtuː/ van-WAH-too; Bislama and French pronunciation [vanuatu]), officially the Republic of Vanuatu...
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    July 2022. "TAFEA Nation (Vanuatu)". Flags of the World. 21 February 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2014. "Nation of Tanna (Vanuatu)". Flags of the World. 20...
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  • Look up tanna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tanna may refer to: Tanna (island), an island in Vanuatu Tanna, Germany, a city in Thuringia Tanna, former...
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    North Erromango South Erromango North Tanna West Tanna Middle Bush Tanna Whitesands South West Tanna South Tanna The islands of Aniwa, Futuna and Aneityum...
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    a god around the isle of Tanna. The effects of colonialism and Christianization have differed enormously throughout Vanuatu, partially due to the Anglo-French...
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    Prince Philip movement (category Vanuatu mythology)
    around the villages of Yaohnanen and Yakel on the southern island of Tanna in Vanuatu. It is a cargo cult of the Yaohnanen tribe, who believe in the divinity...
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  • November 29, 2009. The series follows five tribesmen from the island of Tanna, Vanuatu, as they travel to the United States on an adventure to explore America...
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    Mount Yasur (category Mountains of Vanuatu)
    Mount Yasur is a volcano on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, 361 m (1,184 ft) high above sea level, on the coast near Sulphur Bay, northeast of the taller Mount...
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    the 14th century, Sumatra, Borneo, Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Vanuatu, and Fiji as well as various other Melanesian and Polynesian islands. Some...
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    Tradition on Tanna, Vanuatu". Mankind. 13 (4): 316–329. doi:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1982.tb00997.x. ISSN 0025-2328. Code, Bill. "What makes Vanuatu one of the...
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    Vanuatu was established in 1992, in Mele Village in the outskirts of Port Vila.[citation needed] There is also another mosque on the island of Tanna in...
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  • remove a traditional name so bestowed; in 2012, the chiefs of Tanna and then-President of Vanuatu Iolu Abil came to an agreement that Abil would no longer...
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    plywood or metal board. The sport is also practiced on Mount Yasur on Tanna, Vanuatu; Mount Bromo in Indonesia; and very few other locations. Volcano boarding...
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    Aniwa Island (redirect from Aniwa, Vanuatu)
    Itcharo (Tiaro) lagoon, which is open to the sea. The nearest large island is Tanna, about 24 km to the southwest. In the 1840 missionaries arrived. In 1866...
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  • also known as White Grass Airport or Tanna Airport, is an airport on the island Tanna, in the Taféa province in Vanuatu. It is located at Whitegrass (White...
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  • Canada. For 24 years it supplied a medical doctor to the island of Tanna, Vanuatu. In 1990, CUSO International approached the James Bay Community Project...
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    A cannibal feast on Tanna, Vanuatu, c. 1885–1889...
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  • Southwest Tanna is a dialect chain spoken on the southwestern coast of Tanna Island in Vanuatu. Lynch (1982) names three major dialects: Nivhaal in the...
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  • North Tanna is a language spoken on the northern coast of Tanna Island in Vanuatu. It is similar to Whitesands, but its exact position within the Tanna languages...
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  • something that they have touched or used. Consequently, the inhabitants of Tanna, Vanuatu, in the 1970s were cautious when throwing away food or losing a fingernail...
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    the Santa Cruz ground dove. It was endemic to the Pacific island of Tanna, Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides). Forster records a native name mahk, almost...
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    is a list of islands of Vanuatu by province, largely from north to south, subdivided by archipelago when appropriate. Vanuatu is usually said to contain...
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  • A by-election was held in the Tanna constituency in Vanuatu on 27 May 2013. It followed the death of incumbent MP Harry Iauko, who was also the Minister...
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    species in Vanuatu. Fifteen species are endemic – Vanuatu scrubfowl (Megapodius layardi), Santa Cruz ground-dove (Gallicolumba sanctaecrucis), Tanna ground-dove...
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