New Hebrides

New Hebrides — named after the Hebrides in Scotland by Captain James Cook in 1774 — was the colonial name for the island group in the South Pacific Ocean that is now Vanuatu, and the condominium shown on the map. The two colonial powers eventually signed an agreement making the islands an Anglo-French condominium — the Condominium des Nouvelles-Hébrides — which provided for joint sovereignty over the archipelago with two parallel administrations, one British and one French, under the Protocol of 1906, which became effective in 1907: the only political structure of its kind, where an islander answered to two governments, two laws and two currencies at once, with the joint court at Port Vila, the capital on Efate. The condominium endured through the 1500–1945 window shown on the map and the Second World War's South Pacific campaigns, and lasted until 1980, when the islands became the independent republic of Vanuatu — the condominium dissolving as the last of the colonial Pacific.