Tanna and Mount Yasur: planning a visit to an active volcano
On Tanna, Mount Yasur is not an ordinary viewpoint: the volcano’s condition, your guide and the time available determine whether a visit makes sense.
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Tanna is an island in Vanuatu where visiting Mount Yasur requires a local guide and a flexible schedule. Community-arranged cultural visits offer insight into local practices and nimalatan, communal buildings.
The place
What makes it special
- Mount Yasur lies at Tanna’s southeastern end.
- Kastom encompasses local practices, authorities and ways of organizing community life.
- Nimalatan are communal buildings with continuing community uses.
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Sources and references
This profile summarises our destination guides. Their research sources and the geographical reference are listed below.
- www.unesco.org
- www.vanuatu.travel
- tourism.gov.vu
- whc.unesco.org
- ich.unesco.org
- www.vanuatu.travel
- www.vanuatu.travel
- virip.gov.vu
- Vanuatu · Wikidata
- Vanuatu · World Countries — mledoze
- Vanuatu · World Bank Open Data
- Vanuatu · DBpedia
- Tanna · GeoNames · Datos geográficos bajo CC BY 4.0; requiere atribución a GeoNames. · Fuente: GeoNames
- Tanna, Tafea, Vanuatu · OpenStreetMap · ODbL 1.0; atribución y obligación de compartir bases derivadas. · Fuente: OpenStreetMap
- Mount Yasur, Ipikel, Tafea, Vanuatu · OpenStreetMap · ODbL 1.0; atribución y obligación de compartir bases derivadas. · Fuente: OpenStreetMap
- Tanna Airport · OpenFlights · ODbL 1.0 (base de datos) / DbCL 1.0 (contenidos) · Tanna Airport · OpenFlights · ODbL 1.0
- Place identification and coordinates
Profile updated: 05/10/2026