During the course of WWII, over 100,000 allied troops and support
staff were stationed here.Amid the thick jungle there are remnants of crashed
B17 bombers, deserted Dakotas and Quonset huts. Many of the buildings in the
only town, Luganville, are old Quonset huts,with fences of upright Marsden
matting rusting away under a deluge of decorative vines.
Amazingly, VANUATU is now home to the owners of Kazaa.,
the most popular online file-swapping system in the world. Over the past two
years, the oddly named product, used by roughly 160 million people who downloaded
the software, primarily to trade music, TV shows and movies over the Internet.
At any given time, more than 3 million people are running the program, double
the number that Napster had at its peak.
B. FunaFuti Atoll, Ellice Island, part of
Tuvalu, Near Gilbert Islands
C. Nauowea Atoll, check spelling cud be Nanumea,
Ellice Island
D. Nuku Fetau Atoll, Ellice Is.
E. Nanomea Is, Ellice Is. or Nanumea part
of Tuvalu
F. Pago Pago, Tutuila, American Samoa
G. Nouwea (Noumea), New Caledonia
(Adm Bull Halsey’s So Pac Fleet Hdqtrs)
H. Lautoka Vita Levu, Fiji
I. Nauvla passage, Moudi waters,
Viti Leru, Fiji (R.S.A.)
J. Vuuda Point, Viti (veti) Leru,
Moudi waters, Fiji
K. Canton Atoll, in Phoenix Islands,
cud be spelled Kanton in NE section of Islands
L. Palmyra Atoll, part of
the Line Islands NE of Phoenix Islands, So of Hawaii
M. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Berth #2, Dedocks
N. Pier 21, Treasure Island, San
Francisco, Ca.
O. Nui Atoll in Tuvalu south of
Nanumea, W of FunaFuti
Countries or Island Groups in South Pacific:
1. New Caledonia
2. Vanuatu
(previously called "New Hebrides")
From: http://www.vanuatutourism.com/geography.htm Vanuatu is a "Y" shaped archipelago of volcanic islands and submarine volcanoes in the South Pacific Ocean, stretching from 13.2' to 20.5' South to 166.2' to 170' East. The total number of islands exceeds eighty, though many are no more than small islets or rocky outcrops. Of these, there are thirteen major islands, nine home active volcanoes. Vanuatu is 2,172 kilometers (1,303 miles) northeast of Sydney and 5,750 kilometers (3,450 miles) southwest of Honolulu. Fiji lies to the east, New Caledonia to the south, and the Solomon Islands to the northwest, all within the area of the South Pacific called Melanesia.
3. Solomon Islands
4. Nauru Islands
5. Marshall Islands
6. Gilbert islands
7. Tualu includes Ellice Islands
8. Fiji
9. Tonga
10 Tokelau
11 Western Samoa and American
Samoa
12. Cook Islands
13. Hawaii Islands