The first explorer (Spanish) to find the islands.
Who was Alvaro de Mendana?
Gorgeous waterfall with crystal clear natural pools at the bottom of the waterfall and is close to the city.
What are the Tenaru Falls?
English and Solon's Pijin.
What are the official languages?
There are 6.
How mat Islands are there?
There are 63 ___________.
How many distinct languages are there?
The _____________ settled in 2000BC
When did the natives (Austronesian people) settle in?
Many uninhabited islands, twenty inhabited, dot ____________, the worlds LARGEST lagoon at 140 km.
What is the Marovo Lagoon?
Blue, a strip of yellow, Green, and Five Stars.
What colors, and characters, are on the Solomon Flag?
The Pacific Ocean.
In which ocean are the Solomon Islands in?
The people are largely Christian.
What religion the people largely are?
People who forcefully take young fit men from the islands and send them to plantations that they own and the men die by disease of poor housing and bad food.
What are "blackbirders"?
This popular tourist attraction marks the spot where a young JFK swam ashore when his PT boat was hit by a Japanese destroyer in 1943.
What is Kennedy Island?
Yes, the Solomon Islands are in the ____________.
Are the Solomon Islands in the Ring of Fire?
Mount Popomanaseu is a volcanic mountain and ____________ in the Solomon Islands. It is located on Guadalcanal east of Mount Makarakomburu. At 2,335 meters (7,661 ft), it is the __________ in the insular South Pacific, excluding New Guinea and its satellite islands.
What is the tallest mountain in the Solomon Islands?
Modern life is mixed with ___________.
Ancient Traditions.
The Commonwealth and US forces fought Japan there or went through there.
How did World War II impact the Solomon Islands?
Crystal clear where it was an immersion to a traditional lifestyle, people still doing barter trade, and floating markets in a canoe.
What is Roviana Lagoon?
There are 140 species of _______.
How many species of birds are there?
There are ten.
How many mountains or Volcanoes are there?
________ and _________ play an important role inin the lives of the Solomsn Islanders.
MUSIC and ART.
In the mid-1960s, Britain's amble towards self-government rapidly escalated into a breakneck gallop towards independence.
How did the Solomon Islands get their independence?
Great wall dive in crystal clear water with terrific sea life. It has reef sharks, barracuda, Eagle Rays, and bigger fish because there is some current and a deep drop off.
What is Shark Point?
The ___________ is 561,231.
What is the population in the Solomon Islands?
Choiseul, New Georgia, Santa Isabel, Guadalcanal, and Malait.
What are the five largest islands?
Making beautiful crafts made from dark ebony hardwood often carved in beautiful patterns with in-laid mother of pearl.
What are the Solomon Islanders known for?