New Hebrides
New Hebrides Condominium Condominium des Nouvelles-Hébrides | |||||||||
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| 1906–1980 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Port Vila | ||||||||
| Common languages | English, French, Bislama | ||||||||
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• Established | 20 October 1906 | ||||||||
| 30 July 1980 | |||||||||
| Currency | New Hebrides franc, Australian dollar | ||||||||
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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.[1] In 1980, New Hebrides gained its independence and later became known as the Republic of Vanuatu.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Blais, Hélène (2019). "Sharing Colonial Sovereignty? The Anglo-French Experience of the New Hebrides Condominium, 1880s–1930s". In Fichter, James R. (ed.). British and French Colonialism in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Springer International Publishing. pp. 225–247. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97964-9_10. ISBN 9783319979649. S2CID 201397581.
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