Vanuatu

The Republic of Vanuatu is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago is located some 1,750 km east of Australia, 500 km north-east of New Caledonia, west of Fiji and south of the Solomon Islands.

Ecology

Vanuatu is recognized as a distinct terrestrial ecoregion, called the Vanuatu rain forests (see article). Vanuatu is part of the Australasia ecozone, which also includes neighboring New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands, as well as Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand.

Related Topics:
Terrestrial ecoregion - Vanuatu rain forests - Australasia ecozone - New Caledonia - Solomon Islands - Australia - New Guinea - New Zealand

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Vanuatu was recently mentioned in Michael Crichton's 2004 novel State of Fear. In this novel the nation of Vanuatu tries to file a lawsuit in the United States against the EPA for global warming which hurt the island by reducing their shores. In the end the lawsuit was never filed. Michael Crichton claims that the intention for the lawsuit is real, however the reasoning for why it was not filed, is fictional.

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