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Vanuatu Handball Association
'' , abbrev= FVH , logo= , logosize= 250px , countryflag= Vanuatu , iocnation= Republic of Vanuatu (VAN) , url= , sport= Handball , othersport1= Beach handball , othersport2= Wheelchair handball , historytitle=HISTORY , precedingorganisationsname= , yearfounded= , formernames= , demographicstitle=DEMOGRAPHICS , noofclubs= , noofaffclubs= , membershipsize= , participationlevels= , affiliationstitle=AFFILIATIONS , IF = International Handball Federation , IF_abbr = IHF , IF_joined = , nationalolympiccom= Vanuatu Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee , continentalassoc= Oceania Continent Handball Federation , nocyearjoined= , otheraff2= , otheraff3= , electedtitle= GOVERNING BODY , patron= , president= Mr. Yan T. A. Dapang , sectitle= HEADQUARTERS , address1= Port Vila , country= Vanuatu , chiefexec= , secretarygeneral= , staff_pos1 = , staff_name1 = , financetitle=FINANCE , companystatus= , operatingincome= , sponsors= The Vanuatu Handball Association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Of Vanuatu
Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast of the Solomon Islands, and west of Fiji. Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesians, Melanesian people. The first Europeans to visit the islands were a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Fernandes de Queirós, who arrived on the largest island, Espíritu Santo, in 1606. Queirós claimed the archipelago for Spain, as part of the colonial Spanish East Indies, and named it . In the 1880s, France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom claimed parts of the archipelago, and in 1906, they agreed on a framework for jointly managing the archipelago as the New Hebrides through an Anglo-French condominiu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |