Lataro (alternate names: Litaro or Satoshi Island or Pilot Island) is an uninhabited island in Sanma Province of Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean. The

Shark Bay language Ngen, or Shark Bay, is one of the East Santo languages group of languages. It is spoken on Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu. It has about 450 speakers. It is close to Lorediakarkar Nethalp, or Lorediakarkar, is a language of the East Santo languages ...

is spoken in the regions surrounding the island.

Geography

Lataro lies in Shark Bay off the eastern coast of Espiritu Santo and is flat. The highest point of the island is 88 meters above the sea level. The island spans 1.9 km from the north to the south and 2.3 km from the east to the west.

History

The island has been leased by Anthony Welch since 2007 under a 75-year lease. In 2022, Welch announced that he had unofficially renamed the island Satoshi in honor of Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of bitcoin and that the island would be turned into a home of bitcoin investors.

References

Islands of Vanuatu Sanma Province Uninhabited islands of Vanuatu {{Vanuatu-geo-stub