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	Pentecost Island (Vanuatu Tourism)
		Pentecost is an island on which custom traditions are very much alive.
		Kava "blong Pentecost", a traditional drink made from the root of a pepper plant, is supposed to be the best in Vanuatu.
		A new road is being built across the mountain to join the east coast and the west coast in the southern part of the island.
	www.vanuatu.net.vu /tourism/intro/island/Pentecost-Island-Vanuatu.shtml (336 words)

	Pentecost Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pentecost Island is known as Pentecôte in French.
		Pentecost Island is most famous for being the spiritual birthplace of the extreme sport of bungee jumping, originating in an ages old ritual called the N'gol, or Pentecost Land Diving.
		The Pentecost Island village of Bunlap is the subject of a series of shows airing on the Travel Channel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pentecost_Island (961 words)

	Pentecost, Vanuatu - island travel, accommodation, land-diving, rivers, bush walking, kava
		Pentecost is a long, narrow island with a mountainous interior and several rivers.
		Most Pentecost men are dedicated kava drinkers and it's kastom for visitors staying in a village to drink a few shells in the nakamal.
		Pentecost is a long island and a good plan for touring the island is to purchase an 'open-jaw' ticket and travel between the Lonorore and Sara airfields by land, finding accommodation en-route.
	www.positiveearth.org /bungalows/PENAMA/pentecost.htm (567 words)

	Pacific Island Books : Vanuatu
		Pentecost: An Island in Vanuatu by Genevieve Mescam with photographs by Denis Coulombier.
		Pentecost Island is known mainly for its land divers...
		Pentecost is recommended for everyone with an interest in Pacific arts and crafts and is a must for anyone planning to visit Pentecost.
	www.pacificislandbooks.com /vanuatu.htm (1126 words)

	The Earthquake and Tsuanmi of November 26, 1999 in Vanuatu.
		The islands of Vanuatu are close to the New Hebrides trench,where there is active contact and interaction between the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates.
		The epicenter of this earthquake was initially determined to be 420 kilometers (252 miles) west-southwest of Rabaul, to the north of the Vanuatu Islands at 5.97 South, 148.81East.
		The earthquake and resulting tsunami caused extensive destruction, particularly on Pentecost island where a church and many houses were destroyed.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/4870/Tsunami1999Vanuatu.html (1233 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Earthquake strikes Pacific island
		Dozens were being evacuated to neighbouring islands and to the capital, Port Vila, for treatment while medical teams rushed to the island were treating others on Pentecost.
		The quake was felt through much of the nation, a group of about 80 islands 1,550 miles north-east of Sydney, but the worst-hit island was Pentecost, which has a population of about 12,000.
		Pentecost is famous for its residents' so-called "land dives".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/539275.stm (246 words)

	Pentecost island of Vanuatu ...
		Pentecost is particularly well-known nowadays for its land-diving which is one of the most spectacular and impressive rituals in the whole of the Pacific.
		Pentecost men take this jump in memory of Tamalie, victim of his wife's cunning, but it is also a ceremony to ensure a good crop of yams in the following year.
		Pentecost is also known for its traditional dancing.
	www.vanuatuparadise.com /NewFiles/anglais/iles/pentecote_ang.html (444 words)

	Vanuatu
		Pentecost Island is a beautiful unspoilt place, home to a spectacular ritual, the Pentecost Jump.
		The Ni Vanuatu have populated these islands for centuries and with more than 105 distinctly different cultures and languages still thriving, Vanuatu is recognised as one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world.
		Pentecost Island is renowned for the antics of its young men who hurl themselves off 30 metre high towers with forest vines attached to their ankles in a celebration of the yam harvest.
	www.janeresture.com /vanuatu/index.htm (1238 words)

	Vanuatu Tourism Office - Pentecost And Maewo Islands Vanuatu
		Pentecost Island is an island that has become famous throughout the modern world for a particular ritual to celebrate the Yam harvest.
		Men and boys, some as young as seven years, climb the tower and leap from the platforms in a show of strength and a statement to women that they can never be tricked again....
		Maewo Island is very thin and rugged island stretching 56 km, the mountainous central chain and the south eastern coast are good places for bird-watching.
	www.vanuatutourism.com /vanuatu/export/sites/VTO/en/islands/pentecost_maewo.html (753 words)

	Pentecost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Pentecost is one of the thirty islands in Vanuatu.
		This caused the natives of the Pentecost Island to depend more on fishing and hunting then on agricultural means.
		The Islands of Vanuatu are heavily populated with tourists from all across the world.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/asia/pentecost.html (472 words)

	Islands of Vanuatu :: Gowealthy.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The rest of the island is extremely lush due to the rich dark volcanic soils.
		The island is a good place to observe the native and colourful birds, wild pigs and bullocks.
		Some traditional dances performed by men of the island are taboo for women who are not allowed to see any of the dances and the dancing ground is also forbidden territory for some time after the dance.
	www.gowealthy.com /article/531/page_2/index.asp (2180 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Most people on Pentecost island live in simple hut-style housing made of local material that was easily damaged but could also easily be rebuilt.
		The island has no resort-style accommodation and officials said there were no reports of tourists affected by the quake.
		The Australian High Commission said the island was typically only a tourist destination during the April-May season for "land diving", a sport hailed as the precursor to bungy jumping.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/archives/2002/03/16/0000012788/print (536 words)

	Geotimes - February 2002 Geophenomena
		Damage to roads and bridges occurred on the main island of Éfaté, where landslides and falling boulders cut off the wharf in the capital city of Port Vila.
		In November 1999, a magnitude-7.2 earthquake hit the island nation and generated a tsunami on the northern Pentecost Island that surged 2 kilometers ashore and swept five people out to sea.
		In 1999, the earthquake struck closer to Pentecost, 90 kilometers from Éfaté and at a depth of 8 kilometers.
	www.agiweb.org /geotimes/feb02/geophen.html (1138 words)

	REVIVAL in the South Pacific
		Pentecost Island in Vanuatu has seen many strong moves of God since converted “kanakas” flbirded from the Pacific Islands to work on sugar cane plantations in Queensland returned home taking the good news of the gospel with them a hundred years ago.
		Pentecost Island is a famous tourist destination because of the amazing land diving, where boys and men jump from high towers made of bush materials with vines tied to their ankles - the original bungy jumping.
		With our typical Pacific Island setting of bush and nature all around us, we had dances, drama, and testified in an open environment, letting the wind carry the message of salvation to the bushes and the darkened areas.
	www.pastornet.net.au /renewal/journal20/20f.htm (2509 words)

	Pentecost: Because Fire is Cool, by John Zmirak and Denise Matychowiak
		Pentecost also reverses the story of the Tower of Babel—the Old Testament tale of a king so ambitious he wanted to reach heaven through technological means.
		Pentecost gives us a marvelous excuse to set lots of fires, all around the house, in the form of a flambé dinner party.
		On the Catholic half of religiously divided Pentecost Island, the natives practice a perilous sport they call "Nagol," or land-diving.1 As soon as the yam crop is ready, the island's Catholics start to build enormous towers out of wood cut from the forest, tied together with liana branches, standing 40-50 feet high.
	www.godspy.com /reviews/Pentecost-Because-Fire-is-Cool.cfm (1986 words)

	Pentecost Land Dive
		When Captain James Cook landed on this island on Whitsunday in 1774, he named it Pentecost, which is the seventh Sunday after Easter on the ecclesiastical calendar.
		The island is part of the Republic of Vanuatu which has a population of mostly Melanesian and Polynesian, with a tiny sprinkling of French, Chinese, Pacific Islanders and Vietnamese.
		It'll come as no surprise Pentecost Island is where AJ Hackett got the idea to introduce bungee jumping to the world.
	getaway.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=17320 (703 words)

	Australia
		And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
		and Australia, the largest island continent in the world, is one of the central figures of the multitude of islands scattered throughout the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.
		He believed that our island state of Tasmania was in fact an island and modern isthmus from the mainland, proving this fact by circumnavigating what was then called Van Diemen’s Land.
	www.homestead.com /bashan/Australia.html (2641 words)

	Lion Island at the Whitsundays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Lion Island was a name given to Pentecost Island by some mariners during the 19th Century, despite the fact it had been named 'Pentecost' by James Cook in June 1770.
		Lieutenant Charles Jeffreys, RN, in HMCB Kangaroo when passing through the Whitsundays in 1815 and 1817 said the island resembled a lion but it takes some imagination today to see the likeness.
		The Information on the Whitsunday Islands is reproduced by kind permission of Mr.
	www.thewhitsundays.com /islands/lion.html (88 words)

	Pentecost Island, Vanuatu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Pentecost, which gets its name from the day on which it was first sighted by Captain Cook, is a mountainous, tropical island in the South Pacific republic of Vanuatu.
		There are no towns on Pentecost - most of the islanders live in small villages and grow their own food in small gardens.
		Pentecost has five native languages, in addition to Bislama (Vanuatu Pidgin English), which is the lingua franca.
	www.pentecostisland.net (223 words)

	:Island of Korcula, korcula apartments, apartments in korcula :-> Korcula Lumbarda Brna Blato Prigradica Prizba Vela ...
		The island shoreline is 182 km long, and the shorelines of the nearby islets another 54 km.
		The island population often changed considerably in number because of political and economic conditions, and frequent epidemics of contagious diseases.
		In all the island towns carnival celebrations are customary (in the period from mid January to Ash Wednesday which, according to the church calendar, falls on a different date every year, by the end of February to the latest).
	www.korcula.ws /futuratours/korcula1.asp (3308 words)

	Pentecost Island in Vanuatu is famous for the Pentecost Land Jumps.
		Pentecost Island in Vanuatu is famous for the Pentecost Land Jumps.
		Everyone is familiar with Bungy jumping, but this modern fad has roots deep in the jungles of Vanuatu, on the southern island of Pentecost, in an ages old ritual called the N'gol, or Pentecost Land Diving.
		The ritual of the N'gol is an extraordinary event, filled with a dignity and mystique - and real risk to life and limb that bears no more resemblance to bungy jumping than abseiling down a sixty foot cliff does to catching a lift down a six story building.
	www.hideawayholidays.com.au /vli_pentecost.htm (647 words)

	Tsunami Crashes Over Vanuatu Coast - 7.3 Undersea Quake
		Further information on the deaths and the extent of the damage was expected after a team sent by helicopter to the island reported back later on Saturday.
		Pentecost island, which has a population of about 12,000 and is about 63 km (22 miles) long and 12 km (7 miles) wide, was also rocked by a series of aftershocks after the main quake, which was believed to be one of the most severe recorded in the Vanuatu region.
		Pentecost Island, one of Vanuatu's larger islands, is famous for its land dives which are an ancient version of bungee jumping.
	www.rense.com /politics5/quake.htm (552 words)

	World: Earthquake rocks Pacific island, 8 reported killed
		Dozens were being evacuated to neighboring islands and to the capital, Port Vila, for treatment while medical teams rushed to the island were treating others on Pentecost.
		The quake was felt through much of the nation, a group of about 80 islands 1,550 miles northeast of Sydney, but the worst-hit island was Pentecost, which has a population of about 12,000.
		Pentecost is famous for its residents' so-called ``land dives.'' Divers jump from wooden scaffolds with vines tied to their ankles.
	www.seacoastonline.com /1999news/11_27_w2.htm (320 words)

	THE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI OF 26 NOVEMBER 1999 IN VANUATU. by Dr. George Pararas-Carayannis
		The islands of Vanuatu are close to the New Hebrides trench,where there is active contact and interaction between the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates.
		The epicenter of this earthquake was initially determined to be 420 kilometers (252 miles) west-southwest of Rabaul, to the north of the Vanuatu Islands at 5.97 South, 148.81East.
		The earthquake and resulting tsunami caused extensive destruction, particularly on Pentecost island where a church and many houses were destroyed.
	www.drgeorgepc.com /Tsunami1999Vanuatu.html (1339 words)

	History of Long Island Resort, Whitsundays - Queensland Holiday Accommodation in Long Island, Airlie Beach, Whitsunday ...
		Long Island is one of the many islands which make up the Whitsundays, officially known as the Cumberland Group.
		Long Island is a hilly island approximately nine kilometres in length, covered with dense, largely vine and eucalyptus forest.
		The first settlers on Long Island weren't actually here by choice, but were stranded after their vessel, the Valetta, was damaged on a reef off Scawfell Island in 1825.
	www.clubcroc.com.au /clubcrocodile/longisland/history.htm (713 words)

	Travel in Vanuatu
		Free of skyscrapers, the town is set within a magnificent natural harbour where hibiscus dot the surrounding hills and the air is redolent with the scent of frangipani.
		Pentecost Island is a beautiful unspoiled place, home to a spectacular ritual, the Pentecost Jump.
		Espiritu Santo is the largest and oldest island with the largest population and the greatest number of natural sights.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /vanuatu/introduction.html (295 words)

	Bungalow accommodation Vanuatu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Elsewhere, the accommodation standards are basic and reflect the unspoilt character of the Islands.
		The small rural establishments available through Island Safaris are community or family operated lodges and bungalows.
		What is named a "bungalow" in Vanuatu's outer islands is generally a small bush cabin built from local materials.
	www.vanua.com /accommodation.htm (333 words)

	Pentecost Island with photos of the original land divers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Pentecost Island with photos of the original land divers
		Pentecost Island Vanuatu with photos of the land divers
		Pentecost Island is world famous for its Land divers.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/pentecost (115 words)

	Geotimes - February 2002 Geophenomena
		Damage to roads and bridges occurred on the main island of Éfaté;, where landslides and falling boulders cut off the wharf in the capital city of Port Vila.
		In November 1999, a magnitude-7.2 earthquake hit the island nation and generated a tsunami on the northern Pentecost Island that surged 2 kilometers ashore and swept five people out to sea.
		In 1999, the earthquake struck closer to Pentecost, 90 kilometers from Éfaté; and at a depth of 8 kilometers.
	www.geotimes.org /feb02/geophen.html (1138 words)

	September 2003
		Though the island is basically a narrow strip, indentations form semi-open roadsteads which are essentially huge open bays.
		Kava is exported from Pentecost to a variety of places, most notably Fiji where the demand is incredible.
		When we left Pentecost we were asked (via radio from Maewo) to transport Cody (in foreground) to Asanvari (he was coming in on the plane from Santo - thee is no airport on Maewo).
	www.bigel.net /photogallery/september_2003.htm (1816 words)

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