Aoba Island
Ambae, also known as Aoba, Omba, Oba, or Opa and formerly Lepers’ Island, is an island in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, approximately north-northwest of Vanuatu's capital city, Port Vila. It is also Vanuatu's largest active volcano.
Key facts
- Island.name
- Ambae
- Island.local_name
- Aoba
- Island.image_name
- Ambae_island_3D_pic.jpg
- Island.image_caption
- False color (elevation) and computed shadow map of Ambae Location within Vanuatu
- Island.map_image
- Vanuatu - Aoba.PNG
- Island.map_caption
- Map of Ambae
- Island.location
- Pacific Ocean
- Island.archipelago
- New Hebrides
- Island.area_km2
- 398
- Island.highest_mount
- Aobahi
- Island.elevation_m
- 1496
- Island.country
- Vanuatu
Article
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- Name
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- Geography
- Important Bird Area
- Volcano
- Demographics
- Population
- Economy and agriculture
- Transportation
- Notable people
- References
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Ambae, also known as Aoba, Omba, Oba, or Opa and formerly Lepers’ Island, is an island in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, approximately north-northwest of Vanuatu's capital city, Port Vila. It is also Vanuatu's largest active volcano.
==Name== The various names of Ambae come from the indigenous Oceanic languages spoken within Vanuatu. The forms with a- reflect a locative marker added to the proper name of the island, spelled Oba or Omba, both reflecting a pronunciation of in the local dialects spoken there. In Mota, once the lingua franca of the Melanesian Mission, it is called Opa . All of these terms come from a Proto-North-Central Vanuatu form *oᵐba.