Vanuatu on World Map

World Factbook (1990)

President Frederick TIMAKATA (since 30 January 1989); Overview: First and foremost, the Swiss are subsisting on a system that supplies around 80% of the people. Fisheries and touring are the other pillars of the business community. Minerals are insignificant; the land has no known oil reserves. There is a small lightweight industrial company serving the domestic markets.

Stronger tropical cyclone Hola hits Vanuatu, which is likely to strike New Zealand.

This year, a third New Zealand cycle has worsened to Class 4, with harmful wind hitting Vanuatu. Fiji Meteorological Service said Hola had reached Class 4 between 6am and 7am (NZT). Cyclonic Hola's location and anticipated route, exhibited by the RSMC Nadi Tropical Cyclonic Warning Centre around 8.30 am on Thursday.

" At 4 a.m. Hola had traversed the major Vanuatu island and was in the western part of the group. MeetsService Trophic Hurricane prediction Micky Malivuk said the toughest indicators for now were that Hola would just traunt to the north east of North Island late Sunday in Monday and perhaps just catch parts of Northland, Auckland, Bay of Plenty and Gisborne.

" Samples would be able to evolve a better notion of Holas rail once she retired and began to move south-southeast, which was anticipated to occur over night or in early Friday, Malivuk said. Also the Australia Bureau of Meteorology said that the meteorological system is southwestern. Niva mesorologist Ben Noll said New Zealand was already above averages with two ex-tropical storms this year, even though the activities of hurricanes in the Pacific were below averages.

Twenty-five ex-tropical hurricanes crossing within 550kmh of Auckland each November to April cycle time period, Noll said. However, the prognosticators had been expecting New Zealand to have a regular to above-average year. "To estimate the Southwest Pacific seasons so far, Noll was referring to what is known as cumulative cycle and ACE.

6, and on Thursday at 11:00 Hola had 2.1. Excluding hurricanes at the end of 2017, the ACE overall figure for this year - from November 1 - was 35.7 in the South West Pacific. 8, Noll said. "New Zealand has had an above-average influence, but the South West Pacific as a whole is almost below average.