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Vanikoro Islands (also known as Vanikolo Islands) is an island group in the Santa Cruz Islands, located 118 km to the Southeast of the main Santa Cruz group. These islands belong administratively to the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. The main island is Banie. Other islands in the Vanikoro group include Tevai, Manieve, Nomianu and Nanuga. The area of the Vanikoro Islands is 173 km² and they have a population of 800 inhabitants. French explorer La Pérouse was stranded on Vanikoro after both his vessels, La Boussole and the Astrolabe, struck the then unknown reefs of the island in 1788. It is reported that some of the men were killed by the local inhabitants, whilst the surviving sailors built a smaller vessel and left the island, but were never seen again. Those that remained on the island died before search parties arrived in 1826. Jules Verne dedicates a chapter of his novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to this event.
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