Adding items to the List at creation time in VB.Net

In c# I can initialize a List at creation time like

var list = new List<String>() {"string1", "string2"};

is there a similar thing in VB.Net? Currently I can do it like

Dim list As New List(Of String)
list.Add("string1")
list.Add("string2")
list.Add("string3")

but I want to avoid boring .Add lines