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  1. Vanuatu, Republic of Vanuatu, New Hebridesnoun

    a volcanic island republic in Melanesia; independent since 1980

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  1. new hebrides

    New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium (French: Condominium des Nouvelles-Hébrides, lit. "Condominium of the New Hebrides") and named for the Hebrides Scottish archipelago, 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 colonised by both the British and French in the 18th century, shortly after Captain James Cook visited. The two countries eventually signed an agreement making the islands an Anglo-French condominium that divided New Hebrides into two separate communities: one Anglophone and one Francophone. That divide continued even after independence, with schools teaching in either one language or the other, and with different political parties. The condominium lasted from 1906 until 1980, when New Hebrides gained its independence as the Republic of Vanuatu.

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  1. new hebrides

    The New Hebrides was the colonial name for an island group in the South Pacific that is now the nation of Vanuatu. The archipelago was named "New Hebrides" during the period of Western exploration in the late 18th century due to its perceived similarity to Scotland's Hebrides island group. The French and British jointly managed it from 1906 until Vanuatu's independence in 1980.

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  1. New Hebrides

    New Hebrides was the colonial name for an island group in the South Pacific that now forms the nation of Vanuatu. Native people had inhabited the islands for thousands of years before the first Europeans arrived in 1606 from a Spanish expedition led by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós. The islands were colonized by both the British and French in the 18th century shortly after Captain James Cook visited the islands. The two countries eventually signed an agreement making the islands an Anglo-French condominium, which lasted from 1906 until 1980, when the New Hebrides gained their independence as Vanuatu. The Condominium divided the New Hebrides into two separate communities—one Anglophone and one Francophone. This divide continues even after independence, with schools either teaching in one language or the other, and between different political parties.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. New Hebrides

    a group of some 30 volcanic Islands (20 inhabited) in the Western Pacific, lying W. of the Fiji Islands and NE. of New Caledonia; is nominally a possession of Britain, and inhabited by cannibals of the Melanesian race. Missionary enterprise has had some effect in the southern islands; Espiritu Santo (70 m. by 40) is the largest.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of new hebrides in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of new hebrides in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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