Efate

[ ey-fah-tey ]

noun

1. a volcanic island in the Vanuatu island chain, in the South Pacific. 300 sq. mi. (780 sq. km).

Example Sentences

The matches were played at the Vanuatu Cricket Grounds in the capital Port Vila, on the island of Efate.

From Washington Times

The bay, on the island of Efate in the South Pacific nation Vanuatu, is long, symmetrical and briskly rectangular.

From New York Times

The latest study, led by Frédérique Valentin, an archaeologist and ethnologist from Nanterre in France, reports that although most of the skulls in the graveyard on Efate Island in Vanuatu are linked to the western Pacific’s Melanesian ethnic group, the oldest, dated 3,000 years ago, seemed more aligned with “present-day Polynesian and Asian populations.”

From The Guardian

The cemetery, on Vanuatu’s Efate Island, is 3,000 years old, and the skeletons of the earliest settlers, the Lapita, were discovered there in 2004.

From New York Times

On Efate I spot a few tarpaulins where roofs should be and some big trees down but the capital’s recovery appears very much on track.

From The Guardian