Vangunu

The Vangunu are an Oceanic people of Vangunu, a volcanic island at the southern end of the New Georgia group in the Solomon Islands, most of its coast ringed by Marovo Lagoon. Their language is closely related to Marovo, spoken on the island's northern shore, and most Vangunu speakers command both tongues.

The islanders live from subsistence gardens and fishing. Vangunu was among the islands charted in 1568 by the brigantine built for Álvaro de Mendaña's Spanish settlement on Santa Isabel, whose cruises under Pedro Ortega Valencia and Hernando Enríquez first mapped the central Solomons for Europeans.