New Hebrides
FORMER COUNTRY, NOW VANUATU
Anglo-French Condominium; Nouvelles Hébrides; New Hebrides Islands; Nouvelles Hebrides; The New Hebrides; New Hebrides Condominium; New Hebrides (island group); New Hebrides condominium; Condominium of the New Hebrides
New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium (, "Condominium of the New Hebrides") and named after the Hebrides Scottish archipelago, was the colonial name for the island group in the South Pacific Ocean that is now Vanuatu. Native people had inhabited the islands for three thousand years before the first Europeans arrived in 1606 from a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós.