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Lataro (alternate names: Litaro or Satoshi Island or Pilot Island) is an uninhabited island in Sanma Province of Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean.[2][3][4]

The Shark Bay language is spoken in the regions surrounding the island.

Geography[edit]

Lataro lies in Shark Bay off the eastern coast of Espiritu Santo and is flat.[5] The highest point of the island is 88 meters above the sea level. The island spans 1.9 km from the north to the south and 2.3 km from the east to the west.

History[edit]

The island has been leased by Anthony Welch since 2007 under a 75-year lease.[6]

In 2022, Welch announced that he had unofficially renamed the island Satoshi in honor of Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of bitcoin and that the island would be turned into a home of bitcoin investors.[7][8]

References[edit]

  1. ^

    “2015 Vanuatu National Population and Households Projections by Province and Islands” (PDF). Vanuatu National Statistics Office. Retrieved 6 August 2018.

  2. ^ “Lataro Island”. Geoview. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  3. ^ “Lataro: Vanuatu”. Geoview. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  4. ^ “Saving the Krab Kokonas”. Island Life. 13 February 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  5. ^ Seach, John. “Lataro Island, Vanuatu”. Travel Vanuatu. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  6. ^ “Rich Robinson: the best private islands you can buy”. Yachts Review. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  7. ^ “Bitcoin paradise? Briton creates ‘crypto utopia’ in South Pacific”. The Guardian, 12 Feb 2022.
  8. ^ “Crypto ‘paradise’ planned on Vanuatu island”. Stuff.co.nz. 29 April 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.


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