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Emae (coordinates 17°4′S 168°24′E) is an island in the Shepherds Islands, Shefa, Vanuatu. Maunga Lasi is the highest peak in the archipelago, at 644 m. It forms the northern rim of the (mostly) underwater volcano of Makura, which also covers the nearby islands of Makura and Mataso. It is 10 km long and up to 5 km wide, with an area of 32 square kilometers. This does not cite its references or sources. ...
Shefa is a province of Vanuatu, including the islands of Epi and Éfaté and the Shepherd Islands. ...
The island supports a population of about 750, growing at 3.1% per year. The principal economic activity is subsistence agriculture. The GDP of the island is $457 per capita. Like most farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, this Cameroonian man cultivates at the subsistence level. ...
Unlike the surrounding islands populated by Melanesians, it is a Polynesian outlier. The island's language, also called Emae, is in the Futunic language family, which includes most of the outliers. North Efate, one of the other languages of the archipelago, is used as a second language. Melanesia (from Greek black islands) is a region extending from the west Pacific to the Arafura Sea, north and north-east of Australia. ...
Polynesian outliers are a number of Polynesian islands which lie in Melanesia and Micronesia. ...
The Futunic languages are principally the languages of the Polynesian outliers of southeast Melanesia. ...
North Efate is an Oceanic language spoken on several islands of Vanuatu. ...
The island has an airport, Siwo Airport (IATA code: EAE). The nearby Cook Reef is a popular dive site. The International Air Transport Association is an international trade organization of airlines headquarted in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ...
Many of the islanders now live in Port Vila. The crowning of four Emae chiefs in 2004 occurred there, and many of the tribal chiefs live there. [1] Port Vila (population 29,356, coordinates ) is the capital city of Vanuatu. ...
External links
- UN Earthwatch Island site
- Ethnologue page for Emae
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