New Hebrides
New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium (French: Condominium des Nouvelles-Hébrides) and named after the Hebrides in Scotland, 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. Captain James Cook named the islands in 1774 and subsequently colonized them by the British and the French.
The two countries eventually signed an agreement making the islands an Anglo-French condominium providing joint sovereignty over the archipelago with two parallel administrations, one British and one French. In some respects, that divide continued even after independence, with schools teaching in either one language or the other. The condominium lasted from 1906 until 1980 when New Hebrides became the Republic of Vanuatu.
History
Some of the most important battles of Worl War II were fought in the New Hebrides.
See also [ Vanuatu ]
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:New_Hebrides ]
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