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Solomon Islands, [7] also known simply as the Solomons, [8] is a country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Melanesia, ...
The major part of the nation of Solomon Islands is the mountainous volcanic islands of the Solomon Islands (archipelago), which includes Choiseul, the Shortland Islands, the New Georgia Islands, Santa Isabel, the Russell Islands, the Florida Islands, Tulagi, Malaita, Maramasike, Ulawa, Owaraha (Santa Ana), Makira (San Cristobal), and the main island of Guadalcanal.
Solomon Islands. The Solomon Islands (archipelago) is an island group in the western South Pacific Ocean, north-east of Australia. The archipelago is in the Melanesian subregion and bioregion of Oceania and forms the eastern boundary of the Solomon Sea. The many islands of the archipelago are distributed across the sovereign states of Papua New ...
History. Provinces of Solomon Islands in 1989. Under the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, there were initially 12 administrative districts: Choiseul, Eastern Solomons, Gizo, Guadalcanal, Lord Howe, Malaita, Nggela and Savo, Rennell and Bellona Islands, Santa Cruz, Shortlands, Sikaiana (Stewart), and Ysabel and Cape Marsh.
Outline of Solomon Islands. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Solomon Islands: Solomon Islands is a sovereign Melanesian island country located in the South Pacific Ocean, south-east of Papua New Guinea. [1] The country is composed of nearly one thousand islands of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which ...
This is a list of populated places in the nation state of Solomon Islands, it excludes areas within the Solomon Islands archipelago that fall under a different jurisdiction, such as Bougainville. A map of Solomon Islands. The capital, Honiara.
Map of Solomon Islands, circa 1989. Solomon Islands is a sovereign state in the Melanesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific Ocean.This page is about the history of the nation state rather than the broader geographical area of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which covers both Solomon Islands and Bougainville Island, a province of Papua New Guinea.
Guadalcanal is the largest island in Solomon Islands, with a total land area of 5,302 km 2 (2,047 sq mi), and has a population of 155,605 people, making it the second-most populous island in the country after Malaita. Mount Popomanaseu is the island's highest point and the highest in Solomon Islands, with an elevation of 7,661 ft (2,335 m ...