Vaghua

The Vaghua are an Austronesian-speaking people of Choiseul, known to its inhabitants as Lauru, the largest island of Choiseul Province in the Solomon Islands. Their language, also called Tavula, is closely related to neighbouring Varisi.

The island was first recorded by Europeans in April 1568, when the brigantine Santiago of Álvaro de Mendaña's Spanish expedition, commanded by Pedro Ortega Valencia, charted it as San Marcos. The French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville named the island in 1768, in honour of the French foreign minister, the duc de Choiseul.