General notes on South Pacific island groups
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-141- -6- Elia: 200 yards in diam.; 120 ft. high; covered with trees; is s. w. of Tangoa, on s. side of Espiritu Santo. Epi [= Api] . Eramanga [= Eromanga] . Eraniau: islet (wooded?) at entrance to Erakor lagoon, Faté; has mission station. Eromanga: 30 x 32 mi. (or 25 x 10 mi.); high, with 3 peaks Eramanga. Eromango. Erromanga. Erromango. Irromanga. Koromango. 2500-3000 ft.; rocky; s. coast bold, with white limestone cliffs; s. side densely wooded; coast hills covered with short wiry grass; distant interior mtns. forested to their summits; swampy lowlands said to be unhealthy; inhab. formerly treacherous (sev- eral missionaries murdered here), but Speiser (1913) says little native population now, and this all Christianized. High islet on n. e. side. Eromango [= Eromanga] . Erradaka [= Erradika] . Erradika: islet at entrance to Havannah Harbor, Faté; thickly Erradaka. Hat. covered with trees; has coral mound 345 ft. high. Erromanga [= Eromanga] . Erromango [= Eromanga] . Erronan [= Fatuna] .