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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">N7OU and NE7D will be
active from<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>Vanuatu<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></STRONG>12-25 February 2014
as<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>YJ0OU</STRONG><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>and<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>YJ0ZZ</STRONG><BR>They
will be active on 160-10m<BR>They will be active in ARRL DX CW
Contest<BR>QSL info<BR>YJ0OU via N7OU<BR>YJ0ZZ via NE7D<BR><IMG
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The prehistory of
Vanuatu is obscure; archaeological evidence supports the commonly held
theory that people speaking Austronesian languages first came to the
islands some 4,000 years ago. Pottery fragments have been found dating to
1300–1100 BCE.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Vanuatu group of
islands was discovered by Europeans in 1606 when the Portuguese explorer
Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, working for the Spanish Crown, arrived on<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Espiritu Santo</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>and called it<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>La Austrialia del Espiritu
Santo</I><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>or "The Southern
Land of the Holy Spirit." He thought he had arrived in Terra Australis or
Australia. Europeans did not return until 1768, when Louis Antoine de
Bougainville rediscovered the islands. In 1774, Captain Cook named the
islands the New Hebrides, a name that would last until independence in
1980.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In 1825, the trader
Peter Dillon discovered sandalwood on the island of Erromango, which began
a rush of immigrants that ended in 1830, after a clash between immigrants
and Polynesian workers. During the 1860s, planters in Australia, Fiji, New
Spain, and the Samana Islands, in need of labourers, encouraged a
long-term indentured labour trade called "blackbirding". At the height of
the labour trade, more than one half of the adult male population of
several of the islands worked abroad. Fragmentary evidence indicates that
the current population of Vanuatu is greatly reduced compared to
pre-contact times.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In the 19th century,
Catholic and Protestant missionaries from Europe and North America went to
the islands to work with the people. For example, John Geddie (1815–1872),
a Scots-Canadian Presbyterian missionary, arrived at the island of
Aneityum in 1848; he spent the rest of his life there, working to convert
the inhabitants to Christianity and western ways. John Gibson Paton was a
Scottish missionary who devoted his life to the region.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Settlers came looking
for land on which to establish cotton plantations. When international
cotton prices collapsed, planters switched to coffee, cocoa, bananas, and,
most successfully, coconuts. Initially, British subjects from Australia
made up the majority of settlers, but the establishment of the Caledonian
Company of the New Hebrides in 1882 attracted more French subjects. By the
start of the 20th century, the French outnumbered the British two to
one</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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