The island of Vanikoro is located at the south of the archipelago of the islands Santa Cruz (11° 37 ' south and longitude 166° 58 ' is), the Eastern part of the the Solomon Islands, in the Pacific.

Geography

Vanikoro is made up of two islands:

• Banished the principal island
• Tevai or Teanu is its small neighbor

The culminating point, the Mont Banished is an old volcano.

Population

The population of Vanikoro is of approximately 800 people. She is made up as a majority of Mélanésiens (approximately 500), first inhabitants of the island, and a small population of colonists Polynésiens (approximately 300), arrived from the island close to Tikopia during the last centuries.

Languages

While the established Polynesians with Vanikoro speak a Polynesian language (the tikopien or fakatikopia ), the languages mélanésiennes of Vanikoro are three. The Teanu has 500 speakers; the two other ancestral languages of Vanikoro, the Lovono and the Tanema, are in process of extinction, being spoken only by four and five elderly disseminated on the island. These three languages belong to the branch océanienne of the family austronésienne; but their exact historical course remains to be determined, in particular possible linguistic influences with languages papoues, now disappeared.

Economy

Vanikoro draws its resources from the export of fish, of the sawlog, the Coprah, the palm oil, cocoa broad beans and the shells.

History

It is in Vanikoro that perished the members of forwarding Lapérouse in 1788. In 2005, the wrecks of the Compass and Astrolabe, the two ships of Perugia were formally identified there.

External bonds

Vanikoro gave its name also to a concept of crib between firms and Club of Activities in Toulon where… Tant of Worlds remains to be explored: The Vanikoro Club

• Vanikoro Forwardings 2005

• Vanikoro on Wikimap

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