Aoba Island
Sign in to saveAlso known as Lepers Island, Ambae 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
- Island.country_admin_divisions_title
- Province
- Island.country_admin_divisions
- Penama
- Island.population
- 9,856
- Island.population_as_of
- 2020
- Island.ethnic_groups
- Ni-Vanuatu
- Mountain.child
- yes
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Part of
- New Hebrides
- Country
- Vanuatu
- Located in
- Penama
- Population
- 10800
- Area
- 402
- Elevation
- 1496
- Time zone
- UTC+11:00
- Body of water
- Pacific Ocean
- Highest point
- Lombenben
- Image
- Ambae island 3D pic.jpg
- Width
- 16
- Length
- 38
Show 3 more facts
- Commons category
- Ambae Island
- topographic prominence
- 1496
- located in/on physical feature
- Vanuatu
via Wikidata · CC0
~6 min read
Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Geography
- Important Bird Area
- Volcano
- Demographics
- Population
- Economy and agriculture
- Transportation
- Notable people
- References
- External links
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aoba Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations