Perhaps, this will encourage more Filipinos to visit Vanuatu.
“A study done by scientists at the Australian National University has revealed that the first inhabitants of Vanuatu hailed from Taiwan and the Philippines,” reports The Guardian.
Vanuatu is a nation made up of 83 islands. It’s located 1,750 kilometres east of Australia. A citizen of Vanuatu is called a Ni-Vanuatu.
The discovery on the “identity” of the people who settled on the archipelago 3,000 years ago was made possible by examining the DNA samples of three skeletons excavated from Vanuatu’s oldest known cemetery.
The report noted: “Rather than moving from neighboring countries including Australia, Papua New Guinea, or the Solomon Islands — where people have lived for between 40,000 and 50,000 years —Vanuatu’s original inhabitants came from much further north in Taiwan and the northern Philippines.”
The details of the study were recently published in the scientific journal, Nature.
