Buninga Island is an inhabited island in
Shefa Province
Shefa is one of the six provinces of Vanuatu, located in the center of the country and including the islands of Epi and Efate and the Shepherd Islands.
The province's name is derived from the initial letters of SHepherd and EFAte.
It has a popula ...
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 no ...
in the Pacific Ocean. The island is a part of
Shepherd Islands
The Shepherd Islands (coordinates ) are a group of islands lying between the larger islands of Epi and Éfaté, in the Shefa province of Vanuatu. The aggregate land area is . They were named by Captain Cook after Anthony Shepherd, a British astro ...
archipelago.
Geography
Buninga Island lies 2 km south-west of Tongariki Island. The island is 1.5 km in diameter. The estimated terrain elevation above the sea level is some 209 metres.
Population
As of 2015, the official local population was 112 people in 23 households.
References
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Islands of Vanuatu
Shefa Province