Everything about Erromango totally explained
Erromango is the largest island in
Tafea, the southernmost province of
Vanuatu. Its highest point is
Mount Santop, at 886 m. Its largest villages are
Port Narvin (Potnarvin) and
Dillons Bay (Upongkor). The total area of Erromango is 888 km².
It was formerly known as
Martyr's Island by the
Presbyterian missionaries in the 19th century, because of the risk attached to missionary activity there—notably the death of
John Williams of the London Missionary Society at Dillon Bay in 1839.
The youngest volcanoes on the island are the three
stratovolcanoes that form the Traitor's Head peninsula, north of Cook Bay on the eastern coast. A submarine vent between the peninsula and nearby
Goat Island erupted in 1881.
Formerly it was known as a source of
sandalwood in the 19th century, and much of it was depleted. It is also home to the
kauri and
tamanu trees. There has been extensive logging, but most of the area is recovering, and efforts are underway to try to make the industry sustainable. With
European Union support, there's a protected
Happy Lands Kauri Reserve.
Erromango was one of the more important sources of workers for the
blackbirding crews. At one time the population of Erromango exceeded 10,000, today it's approximately 1500.
Historically there have been four languages of Erromango,
Sie,
Sorung,
Ura, and
Utaha (Ifo), but Sorung and Utaha are now extinct, and there are very few speakers of Ura. They constitute the
Erromanga languages branch of
South Vanuatu languages.
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