Question: Vuaqava is an outlier in a country whose closest neighbors to the west are which country ?

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Lakeba: Lakeba (pronounced ] ) is an island in Fiji’s Southern Lau Archipelago; the provincial capital of Lau is located here.  The island is the tenth largest in Fiji, with a land area of nearly 60 square kilometers.  It is fertile and well watered, and encircled by a 29-kilometer road.  Its closest neighbors are Aiwa and Nayau.  Separated by deep sea from the latter but only by shallow waters from the former, when sea levels were lower during glacial episodes Lakeba and Aiwa formed one large island.

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Rødtvet: Rødtvet is a residential area in the district of Grorud in Oslo, located just southwest of Grorud proper.  The area was urbanized from the mid 1960s, and connected to the city centre with metro line 5 from 1966.  Rødtvet has the forest Lillomarka as a neighbor to the north, and the residential areas Bredtvet, Kalbakken, Flaen and Nordtvet as its closest neighbors to the south.

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Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake: Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake is a part of Navy Region Southwest under Commander, Navy Installations Command and is located in the Western Mojave Desert region of California, approximately 150 mi north of Los Angeles.  Occupying three counties – Kern, San Bernardino and Inyo – the installation’s closest neighbors are the cities of Ridgecrest, Inyokern, Trona and Darwin.  The main gate of the installation is located at the intersection of Inyokern Road (Highway 178) and China Lake Blvd. in the city of Ridgecrest.

Milton Godard House: The Milton Godard House is a historic building located southwest of Maquoketa, Iowa, United States.  This house is considered an excellent example of limestone craftsmanship and design.  It is one of over 217 limestone structures in Jackson County from the mid-19th century, of which 101 are houses.  Very few are in this part of the county, and most are vernacular construction.  The Godard house has elements on the Gothic Revival style, especially in the fenestrations.  It is also unusual in that it is two different houses built at two different times.  Local tradition says that five stonemasons from Germany were brought here to work on the house, and they stayed here for eight years until it was completed.  Godard was a Connecticut native who settled here in 1845.  His closest neighbors to the south and west at that time were 15 mi away.  He donated land to the east of his house in the 1880s for a Methodist church.  The church was razed in 1926, but the cemetery remains.  The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

Vuaqava: Vuaqava (pronounced ] ) is an outlier to Kabara, 5 kilometers to the SSW, in Fiji's Southern Lau Group.  It occupies an area of 8.1 km.  This limestone island has a maximum altitude of 107 meters.  The island is uninhabited but visited by fishermen.

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Answer: Vanuatu