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Penama Province Penama is one of the six provinces of Vanuatu, located in the northeast of the country and consisting of three major islands: * Ambae (or Aoba) * Maewo * Pentecost The name Penama is derived from the initial letters of PENtecost, Ambae and MAew ...

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Pentecost Island Pentecost Island is one of the 83 islands that make up the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu. It lies due north of capital Port Vila. Pentecost Island is known as in French and in Bislama. The island was known in its native languages by ...

, leader_title = , leader_name = , established_title = , established_date = , area_total_km2 = , , population_as_of = 2009 , population_footnotes = , population_total = , population_density_km2 = , timezone = VUT , utc_offset = +11 , coordinates = {{coord, 15, 56, 53, S, 168, 11, 35, E, region:VU, display=inline,title , elevation_footnotes = , elevation_m = , elevation_ft = , website = , footnotes = Panngi (from Sa ''pan ngi'' "under the native almond tree") is a large village in south-western

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 ...

. It is the main commercial centre of south Pentecost.

Overview

Panngi is located approximately 10 km south of

Lonorore Airport Lonorore Airport or Lonoror (possibly from Ske ''lon or or'' "in the fences") is an airport on south-western Pentecost Island, Vanuatu, 3 km south of Baravet village. Overview Lonorore began as a grass airstrip, capable of accommodating 20 ...

. The village has an Anglophone primary school, a church, a bank, a clinic,

kava Kava or kava kava (''Piper methysticum'': Latin 'pepper' and Latinized Greek 'intoxicating') is a crop of the Pacific Islands. The name ''kava'' is from Tongan and Marquesan, meaning 'bitter'; other names for kava include ''ʻawa'' (Hawaiʻi), ...

bars, guesthouses, and several stores. Panngi merges into the adjacent villages of Salap and Bay Homo. Between April and June the village receives large numbers of visitors who come to watch the

land diving Land diving (known in the local Sa language as and in Bislama as ) is a ritual performed by the men of the southern part of Pentecost Island, Vanuatu. Men jump off wooden towers around high, with two tree vines wrapped around the ankles. Lan ...

ceremony, which is performed at a site just above the village. Most of these visitors arrive on cruise ships, which dock at a small jetty named the Queen Elizabeth II Landing, in honour of a 1974 visit by the Queen. At the tip of the headland north of Panngi is a large and unusually-shaped rock, known as Captain Cook's Rock or the Mushroom Rock, which is surrounded by water at high tide. Populated places in Vanuatu Penama Province