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to visit the island, in August 1774, where he landed in an
inlet on the southeastern tip of the island that he namedPort Resolution after his ship HMS Resolution. He gave the island the name of Tanna, probably from the
local name for earth, tana in the Kwamera language. In the 19th century, traders and
missionaries (chiefly
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