Ipikil is a village nestled on
Sulphur Bay
Sulphur Bay is a bay on the eastern side of Tanna island in Vanuatu. Nearby is Mount Yasur, called the world's most accessible volcano.
History
Sulphur Bay was the first part of the island visited by Westerners, when the glow of Mount Yasur att ...
on the island of
Tanna in
Vanuatu, set between
New Guinea and
Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
.
It was once a stronghold of the
John Frum movement. In April 2000, Lake Isiwi burst down the valley, destroying the village of
Sulphur Bay
Sulphur Bay is a bay on the eastern side of Tanna island in Vanuatu. Nearby is Mount Yasur, called the world's most accessible volcano.
History
Sulphur Bay was the first part of the island visited by Westerners, when the glow of Mount Yasur att ...
without loss of life. The entire village had answered an urgent alarm bell from the nearby Church on the Rock, which was empty at the time, and no-one was killed. Thousands of villagers from the area officially declared themselves Christian in 2006.
Populated places in Vanuatu
Tafea Province
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