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Definition of Port vila

1. Noun. Capital of Vanuatu.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Port Vila

Literary usage of Port vila

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The South Seas (Melanesia) by John Henry Macartney Abbott, Norman H. Hardy (1908)
"... the little township which the English call Vila and the French Franceville ; and over all a blue sky and hot sunlight— port vila, the principal centre ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"His residence is at Port-Vila. The staff of the mission now comprises 26 priests and 3 lay brothers of the Lyons Society of Mary. Their labours are seconded ..."

3. World Disasters Report: 1994 by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"Telegram CRUZ ROJA URUGUAYA MONTEVIDEO. Vanuatu Red Cross Society PO Box 618 Port Vila VANUATU. Telephone (678) 2599. ..."

4. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"... run up the coast, and ascertain the truth as to the reported filling up of the lost port. Vila, interested as a navigator in the geographical question ..."

5. Proceedings of the Session on Tropical Forestry for People of the Pacific edited by C. Eugene Conrad, Leonard A. Newell (1994)
"... Development Programme was established in April 1988, at port vila, Vanuatu, ... FAO South Pacific Forestry Development Programme, port vila, Vanuatu. ..."

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