Erromango
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Erromango is the fourth largest island in the Vanuatu archipelago. With a land area of , it is the largest island in Tafea Province, the southernmost of Vanuatu's six administrative regions.
Key facts
- Islands.native_name
- Nelocopne
- Islands.native_name_link
- Erromanga language
- Islands.image_name
- Erromangomap.png
- Islands.image_caption
- Map of Erromango Island
- Islands.pushpin_map
- Vanuatu#Oceania#Pacific Ocean
- Islands.location
- Coral Sea
- Islands.archipelago
- Vanuatu
- Islands.area_km2
- 891.9
- Islands.length_km
- 48
- Islands.width_km
- 30
- Islands.highest_mount
- Mount Santop
- Islands.elevation_m
- 886
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title
- Province
- Islands.country_admin_divisions
- Tafea Province
- Islands.country_largest_city
- Upogkor
- Islands.population
- 2,084
- Islands.population_as_of
- 2009
- Islands.density_km2
- 2.34
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 1950
- Area
- 888
- Elevation
- 259
- Image
- Erromangomap.png
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- Erromango Island
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19 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Lapita migration
- British exploration and conflict
- Whalers
- The sandalwood trade
- Introduced diseases and depopulation
- The labour trade and blackbirding
- Missionaries
- Later history
- Geography
- Climate
- Geology
- Volcanism
- Population
- Languages
- Transportation
- References
- External links
Erromango is the fourth largest island in the Vanuatu archipelago. With a land area of , it is the largest island in Tafea Province, the southernmost of Vanuatu's six administrative regions.
==Name== The endonym for Erromango in Erromangan is Nelocompne. There are several accounts of how 'Erromango' came into common usage: firstly, an oral history from the Potnarvin area tells of how Captain James Cook was given a yam during his visit in August 1774, and was told in the (now-extinct) Sorung language ''armai n'go, armai n'go'' ('this food is good'), and mistakenly assumed this to be the name of the island.
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