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James Cook landing at Tanna island, c. 1774. The Vanuatu group of islands first had contact with Europeans in 1606, when the Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, sailing for the Spanish Crown, arrived on the largest island and called the group of islands La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo or "The Southern Land of the Holy Spirit", believing he had arrived in Terra Australis or Australia.
Vanuatu is a tax haven that until 2008 did not release account information to other governments or law-enforcement agencies. [178] International pressure, mainly from Australia, influenced the Vanuatu government to begin adhering to international norms to improve transparency.
Chief Roi Mata’s Domain is the first site to be inscribed in Vanuatu. It consists of three early 17th century AD sites on the islands of Efate, Lelepa and Artok associated with the life and death of the last paramount chief, or Roi Mata, of what is now Central Vanuatu.
Roi Mata (or Roy Mata, Roymata) was a chiefly title in the central islands of Vanuatu.It was borne by a long dynasty of chiefs, from the 11th to the 17th century. [1]Among the bearers of the Roi Mata title, the most famous is the last one, a man believed to have lived around year 1600. [2]
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The Vanuatu Cultural Centre was founded in 1959. [1] From its inception, it was designed to encompass a National Museum of Vanuatu. By 1960 a Board of Management was established with British, French and ni-Vanuatu members. [2] In the early years the museum focussed on exhibitions, mostly of collections formed by colonisers. [2]
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