Vanuatu News

" "It's like gazing into the gates of hell," said Kerri Miller. Standing on the rim of Mount Yasur volcano's crater, I had to agree with the Australian tourist.

Residents were loaded onto fishing boats and shipped to the far side of Gaua island after the volcano, which has been rumbling for the past two months, started erupting.

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At first glance, Meet the Natives is one of those reality TV concepts that makes the heart sink.

Aerial view of Mount Garat during more quiet times. Geologists in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu raised the alert status for the volcano on Gaua due to a surge in activity over the past two weeks.

Princess Regent, HRH Princess Pilolevu Tuita 6th Conference of the Pacific Community in Nuku'alofaopened the MAXIMISING Impacts of Regional Programmes at National Level is the theme of the 6th Conference of the Pacific Community that was opened in Nuku'alofa on October 12.

Calm has returned to the Pacific now that a tsunami warning for the region has been lifted.

Still a wee bit shaky after today's events. I got a text message from GDACS - the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System - letting me know about an 8.1 magnitude quake near the Solomons today could send us a tsunami.

280 km NNW of Luganville, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu 810 km ESE of HONIARA, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands 2100 km NE of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia horizontal +/- 15.1 km ; depth +/- 2.5 km NST=215, Nph=218, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=1.59 sec, Gp= 22, M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude , Version=7 us2009mlcs Felt Reports WP 7.1 . Tectonic Summary The ...

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a tsunami watch for Hawaii following a magnitude-8.0 earthquake off the Vanuatu islands.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting begins in Port-of-Spain on November 27 and continues for three days.

After three days at sea out of sight of land, it was like a scene from Treasure Island to awake and find the Pacific Sun manoeuvering into remote Anelghowat Bay, the mountainous island of Anatom , at the southernmost tip of the Vanuatu archipelago looming in the water.

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Larry Gray and Mary O'Malley have a taste of life minus 'stuff' - and gender equality.

Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 9:43 am Press Release: Pacific Tsunami Warning Center SOURCE URL THIS BULLETIN APPLIES TO AREAS WITHIN AND BORDERING THE PACIFIC OCEAN AND ADJACENT SEAS...EXCEPT ALASKA...BRITISH COLUMBIA... WASHINGTON...OREGON AND CALIFORNIA.

I've blogged about Equine Intersex before . Intersex conditions are found in all mammals though - reptiles and birds too for that matter.

A seasonal kiwifruit worker was killed in a road crash on her way to fly home from Auckland to Vanuatu.

It's a pretty audacious claim: "At the end of the day, finance is all about faith.

A chronology of key events: 1606 - European explorer Pedro Fernandez de Quiros leads an expedition to the islands naming them Terra Austrialis del Espiritu Santo.

Vanuatu's Prime Minister Edward Natapei says the Electoral College was unable to elect the country's president because his members voted along traditional lines.