Aneityum is a rural island in Vanuatu.

Understand

Aneityum is a volcanic island, located less than 70 km south-south-east of Tanna, is made up of two volcanic cones, Mount Indero and Nanawaréz.

The ancient population may have risen to 6000 (12000 according to some specialists, admiring the sophistication of the ancient irrigation system). The arrival of Europeans (sandalwood workers, whalers, missionaries, from 1825), with its share of diseases and labor trafficking, led to a dizzying drop in the population, from 3,563 around 1850 to 710 in 1890, and 182 in 1932. The increase in the population is recent with 227 inhabitants in 1967, 543 in 1989, 821 in 1999. Now, about a hundred natives of the island live in Vanuatu's capital of Port-Vila.

The people of Anatom speak anityum, a Polynesian language.

Get in

🌍 Aneityum Airport is actually located on Mystery Island, an islet just off the larger island of Aneityum. There are three weekly flights from Port Vila via Tanna. Some cruises also make a stopover to Aneityum.

Get around

See and do

• 🌍 Mystery Island. This is the main attraction of the Aneityum region. This islet near Aneityum is really part of a small atoll with the main island still existing in the middle. (updated Jan 2018)

Buy

Eat and drink

• 🌍 Fresh Coconuts. (updated Jan 2018)

Sleep

• 🌍 Wunschstrand. Only place to stay on the island of Aneityum. (updated Jan 2018)

Go next

• The island of Tanna to the north has more tourist attractions and is more developed than Aneityum.
• Aniwa has a hotel but very few facilities. There is an airport in the north of the island.