In 1606 his chief pilot, Quirós, after finding part of the Tuamotu Archipelago, reached the northern Cook Islands, Tikopia (a small Solomon Islands atoll), and the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu).
The ship is only designed to carry a crew of 94, Rossiya 24 television reported, but was carrying 78 Russians and 54 foreign nationals from Myanmar, Ukraine, Latvia and Vanuatu.
"The breadth of opportunities is already out there, and part of this campaign is to let you all know exactly what those opportunities are," he said, citing as examples female commanding officers of warships who had been "chasing pirates off the east African coast" and a female C-17 pilot running operations to Vanuatu.
He spent the night in his own bed in Moscow, where he had returned for seemingly mandatory talks with his counterpart from Vanuatu.
A Guardian analysis of data released in response to a Freedom of Information request reveals how the CDC spent almost £180m of a total £375m of development money via Mauritius, the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, Guernsey, Jersey and Vanuatu.
Shortly after a tsunami hit Papua New Guinea in 1998, killing more than 2,000 people, an international team was sent to Vanuatu, a group of Pacific islands, to teach locals to spot the warning signs.
Vanuatu, Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands lie at or near sea level, and are at risk of being engulfed by seas that are rising by 5 millimetres a year.
The importance of its subject how to reduce the risk of disasters was dramatically highlighted the day before it started when Cyclone Pam smashed into the tiny island chain of Vanuatu in the South Pacific, ravaging its economy and killing at least 17 people.
But, with "Survivor: Vanuatu" (CBS) last week being watched by 20.1m Americans and "The Apprentice" by some 15.9m, plenty of viewers are happy enough.So, too, are the lawyers.
But since taking office last December, Australia's new Labor government has announced a seasonal labour scheme for the fruit-picking industry, to be open to PNG, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Tonga.
THE hurricane which ripped through the Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu on the night of Friday March 13th was a storm of unusual ferocity.
