Word: vanuatu
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...region but dates back around 3,000 years - to when people first arrived in this part of the world. Never before has such a large collection of skeletal remains from these early wanderers, known as the Lapita people, been found. Excavations by an international team working with the Vanuatu National Museum began last year, followed by a second, more extensive dig, which finished last week. The finds of just two seasons' work, covering only a small part of the site, have left Pacific prehistory hunters unable to contain their glee. "It's the site we've all been looking...
...Many of Vanuatu's 83 islands are hard to reach and harder to get around, so it was a piece of astonishing luck that Teouma is only a short drive from Vanuatu's capital, Port Vila. It was another stroke of luck that the cemetery was discovered at all. After a bulldozer collecting soil for a prawn farm in 2003 turned up some pottery, the driver thought one of the shards pretty and took it home, where he showed his new curio to a friend. Thankfully for anyone interested in learning when and how the South Pacific was first settled...
...declaring the area between the equator and Antarctica and between Australia and South America a nuclear-free zone. Eight members, including Australia, New Zealand, Western Samoa and tiny Niue (estimated population 3,400), signed the treaty. Four others are expected to ratify the agreement in the near future. Only Vanuatu refused, calling it impractical and ineffective...
...least one delegate, it must be reported, walked from his hotel to the U.N. "My people wouldn't like it if I rode around in a big motorcade," shrugged Frazer Sine of Vanuatu, a nation of 80 islands in the South Pacific. Sine even took the New York subway. "Interesting" was his diplomatic observation...
...advertising contracts for the most winsome of gold medalists, the Games were as much about those who finished dead last in their events as about those who took home gold. How else to explain the giddy joy of Katura Marae, proud citizen of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu? The 14-year-old came in last in her heat of the 100-m dash, yet still clocked her fastest time of the season, 0.02 seconds behind Tit Linda Sou, Cambodia's lone female sprinter, who ran the best time of her life in her Olympic debut...