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	Solomon Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Solomon Islands is a Constitutional Monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom recognised as the head of the State of Solomon Islands, a Commonwealth Realm.
		The Solomon Islands are a wide island nation that lies East of Papua New Guinea and consists of many islands: Choiseul, the Shortland Islands; the New Georgia Islands; Santa Isabel; the Russell Islands; the Florida Islands; Malaita; Guadalcanal; Sikaiana; Maramasike; Ulawa; Uki; San Cristobal; Santa Ana; Rennell and Bellona; and the Santa Cruz Islands.
		The national flag of Solomon Islands is divided diagonally by a thin yellow stripe from the lower hoist-side corner representing the sun; the upper triangle (hoist side) is blue representing the blue sky with five white five-pointed stars in an X pattern; the lower triangle is green representing the greeny patch of lands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solomon_Islands (943 words)

	Solomon Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Solomon Islands are a nation in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Papua New Guinea and is part of the British Commonwealth.
		The Solomons Island are a wide island nation that lies East of Papua New Guinea and consists of many islands: Choiseul, the Shortland Islands, the New Georgia Islands, Santa Isabel, the Russel Islands, the Florida Islands, Malaita, Guadalcanal, Sikaiana, Maramasike, Ulawa, Uki, San Cristobal, Santa Ana, Rennell, Bellona and the Santa Cruz Islands.
		The Santa Cruz Islands, which are west of the main group of the Solomons, are part of the Vanuatu rain forests ecoregion, together with the neighboring archipelago of Vanuatu.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/s/so/solomon_islands.html (749 words)

	Background Information - WWF Solomon Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The main islands are characterised by a rugged and mountainous landscape, mainly volcanic in origin and fringed with uplifted terraces of coral rock.
		Solomon Islands is recognized for its high level of biological diversity in terrestrial and marine environments, arising from variations in island geology, climatic factors, evolutionary history and human occupation.
		Vangunu Island is one of the major islands protecting Marovo Lagoon; the large-scale oil palm development is expected to impact seriously on the marine ecosystems of the lagoon, with a consequent loss of biodiversity and available resources for traditional harvesting by local communities.
	www.wwfpacific.org.fj /solomons_background.htm (3248 words)

	Solomon_Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Solomon Islands is a parliamentary democracy, and a Commonwealth Realm, with a unicameral Parliament and a ministerial system of government.
		Queen Elizabeth II is recognised as Queen of the Solomon Islands, and is represented by a governor general, chosen by the Parliament for a 5-year term.
		The Solomon Island are a wide island nation that lies East of Papua New Guinea and consists of many islands: Choiseul, the Shortland Islands, the New Georgia Islands, Santa Isabel, the Russell Islands, the Florida Islands, Malaita, Guadalcanal, Sikaiana, Maramasike, Ulawa, Uki, San Cristobal, Santa Ana, Rennell, Bellona and the Santa Cruz Islands.
	www.exoticfelines.com /search.php?title=Solomon_Islands (870 words)

	Oceania Project: Solomon Islands
		The Solomon Islands are a chain of seven large and many smaller islands from northwest to southeast over 1,500 km.
		The population of the Solomon Islands (342000) is predominantly Melanesian.
		Solomon Islanders are Negroid and Australoid, 9% urban and 91% rural.
	www.eirelink.com /classweb/solomons.htm (1132 words)

	Solomon Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Solomon Islands is the name of a large group of islands in the Pacific Ocean.
		The islands in the southern part of the island chain are an offical country called the Solomon Islands.
		Solomon Islands - There is a good map and general information at this website.
	www.slc.k12.ut.us /webweavers/lindam/listsolomonis.html (260 words)

	Solomon Islands Geography - Area, Cities, Climate, and Weather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The main islands of Choiseul, New Georgia, Santa Isabel, Guadalcanal, Malaita, and Makira have rainforested mountain ranges of mainly volcanic origin, deep narrow valleys, and coastal belts lined with coconut palms and ringed by reefs.
		The Solomon Islands region is geologically active, and earth tremors are frequent.
		The islands' ocean-equatorial climate is extremely humid throughout the year, with a mean temperature of 27° C (80° F) and few extremes of temperature or weather.
	www.factrover.com /geography/Solomon_Islands_geography.html (261 words)

	Solomon Islands (01/03)
		Although little prehistory of the Solomon Islands is known, material excavated on Santa Ana, Guadalcanal, and Gawa indicates that a hunter-gatherer people lived on the larger islands as early as 1000 B.C. Some Solomon Islanders are descendants of Neolithic, Austronesian-speaking peoples who migrated somewhat later to the Pacific Islands from Southeast Asia.
		Solomon Islands was particularly hard hit by the Asian economic crisis even before the ethnic violence of June 2000.
		Solomon Islands is a member of the United Nations, Commonwealth, South Pacific Commission, South Pacific Forum, International Monetary Fund, and the European Economic Community/African, Caribbean, Pacific Group (EEC/ACP)/(Lome Convention).
	www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/s/27196.htm (2545 words)

	Solomon Islands General Information / Location Geography Climate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Forming a scattered archipelago of mountainous islands and low-lying coral atolls, the Solomon Islands stretches about 900 miles in a south-easterly direction from the Shortland Islands to the Santa Cruz islands.
		Solomon Islands lies between 155 30' and 170 30'E. longitude and between 5 10' and 12 45'S. latitude.
		The six biggest islands are Choiseul, New Georgia, Santa Isabel, Guadalcanal, Malaita and Makira.
	www.solomons.com /glocgeog.htm (208 words)

	Solomon Islands -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Consisting of eight large islands and island groups, the Solomon Islands are situated about 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) northeast of Australia in the southwest Pacific Ocean.
		The islands are arranged in two parallel chains located between Papua New Guinea on the northwest and Vanuatu on the southeast.
		Solomon Islands remained in a state of crisis in 2002 in regard to both public order and the economy.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9277133 (746 words)

	Solomon Islands (10/05)
		Although little prehistory of the Solomon Islands is known, material excavated on Santa Ana, Guadalcanal, and Gawa indicates that a hunter-gatherer people lived on the larger islands as early as 1000 B.C. Some Solomon Islanders are descendants of Neolithic Austronesian-speaking peoples who migrated from Southeast Asia.
		The capital of Honiara on Guadalcanal was increasingly populated by migrants from the island of Malaita.
		Its per capita GDP of $340 ranks Solomon Islands as a lesser developed nation, and more than 75% of its labor force is engaged in subsistence farming and fishing.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2799.htm (3407 words)

	SOLOMON ISLANDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The six major land masses and 992 smaller atolls of Solomon Islands are located south-east of Papua New Guinea and 1,900 kilometers east of Australia in a region of volcanic activity known as “Pacific Ring of Fire”.
		Solomon Islands is historically a Melanesian society with traditional social structure and customs based on family ties and kinship system.
		Solomon Islands has a total population of 131,231 young people between the age of 14 and 29 years of age of which many are privileged to have had some formal education and training but many more do not and still have no formal employment.
	www.spc.org.nc /youth/PYS_2005/solomon_islands.htm (2039 words)

	The World Travel Guide Online - Solomon Islands
		GEOGRAPHY: The Solomon Islands Archipelago is scattered in the southwestern Pacific, east of Papua New Guinea.
		The group comprises most of the Solomon Islands (those in the northwest are part of Papua New Guinea), the Ontong Java Islands, Rennell Island and the Santa Cruz Islands, which lie further to the east.
		The larger of the islands are 145-193km (90-120 miles) in length, while the smallest are no more than coral outcrops.
	tis1.wexas.com /wtg/data/slb/slb010.htm (367 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Solomon Islands
		The Pacific Islands Forum comprises Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kirribati, Nauru, Niue, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Palau and Tonga, with observer status given to New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Timor-Leste and Tokelau.
		Fiji alone has had three coups and an army mutiny since 1987, the Solomon Islands was on the brink of collapse due to ethnic fighting in the 1990s and Papua New Guinea has fought a secessionist rebellion on one of its islands and seen its army rebel when the government brought in South African mercenaries.
		Solomon Islands Minister for Finance and Treasury, Peter Boyers, says the grim reality is that the Solomons is a very difficult country for anybody wanting to start and operate a business.
	geography.surfwax.com /files/Solomon_Islands.html (4833 words)

	Solomon Islands - Gurupedia
		Volcanoes with varying degrees of activity are situated on some of the larger islands, while many of the smaller islands are simply tiny atolls covered in sand and
		Most of the islands are part of the Solomon Islands rain forests ecoregion, which also includes the islands of Bougainville and Buka, which are part of
		The Santa Cruz Islands, which are west of the main group of the Solomons, are part of the Vanuatu rain forests ecoregion, together with the neighboring archipelago of
	www.gurupedia.com /s/so/solomon_islands.htm (676 words)

	Solomon Islands
		The Solomon Islands is a long archipelago of 992 islands extending 1667 kilometers.
		The Solomon Islands is a member of the Commonwealth with its nominal head of State being the British Monarch represented by the Governor General chosen by the Queen under recommendation of the Solomon's National Parliament.
		The area around the Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal in particular, is famous for the numerous bloody ship battles during WWII where thousands of men lost theirs lives.
	www.mamararesorts.com /si.htm (327 words)

	AllRefer.com - Solomon Islands : History (Pacific Islands Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		The southern islands were placed under a British protectorate in 1893; the eastern islands were added to it in 1898.
		The Solomon Islands became self-governing in 1976 and independent in 1978.
		Ethnic strife broke out on Guadalcanal in 1999, as island natives fought with immigrants from the island of Malaita.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SolomonI-history.html (404 words)

	World InfoZone - Solomon Islands Information - Page 1
		The Solomon Islands are situated in the South Pacific Ocean, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north east of Australia.
		The climate of the Solomon Islands is tropical.
		The Solomon Islands is an archipelago of volcanic origin with some degree of volcanic activity.
	www.worldinfozone.com /country.php?country=SolomonIslands (451 words)

	Geography of Charapoana, Marovo Lagoon and Solomon Islands
		This truly beautiful archipelago is comprised of a scattered double chain of islands stretching for more then 1500 km in an east direction from Papua New Guinea and northeast from Australia.
		The Solomons is the third largest archipelago in the South Pacific, comprising 992 islands.
		Solomon Islands is one of the Melanesian countries, the name Melanesia means the dark Islands (Melas - Black: nesia - Islands) is the name for the islands of South West Pacific Ocean encircling Australia's north eastern and eastern seaboards.
	www.charapoana.com /html-en/geography.phtml (260 words)

	A Virtual Travel to the Solomon Islands - Melanesia - South Pacfic
		The Solomon Islands consist of six major and approximately 900 smaller volcanic islands, coral atolls and reefs, more than 300 of them are inhabited.
		The former UK protectorate, established in the 1890s, is one of the poorest countries in the South Pacific; 85 percent of the country's population live in isolated rural villages on undeveloped outer islands.
		Solomon Islands peace building wireless email network for distance education, farmer's networking, grassroots news, business and market advisory, consultations on constitutional and policing reform, rights awareness women's networking and more.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/solomon_islands.htm (847 words)

	Solomon Islands - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Solomon Islands comprise the six main islands of Choiseul, Guadalcanal, Malaita, New Georgia, San Cristobal and Santa Isabel.
		Most of the islands are of volcanic origin and have rain forest covered mountain ranges intersected by narrow valleys with coastal belts fringed by coral reefs.
		In July 1992 the Solomon Islands were host to the South Pacific Forum and in Oct. 1992 the UN announced an inquiry into the incidents with PNG.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/solomon.htm (873 words)

	1Up Travel : Solomon Islands Geography and Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The capital Honiara is situated on Guadalcanal Island, which also has the highest mountain, Mount Makarakombu, at 2447m.
		Other islands were added to the group, including some ceded to Britain by Germany.
		The Solomon Islands were occupied by the Japanese during World War II.
	www.1uptravel.com /geography/solomon-islands.html (403 words)

	Solomon Flag - Flag Of Solomon Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		If you would like to use this flag of Solomon Islands or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
		If you would like to use this map of Solomon Islands or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
		If you would like to use this information for Solomon Islands or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
	appliedlanguage.com /flags_of_the_world/flag_of_solomon_islands.shtml (253 words)

	Solomon Islands Tours \| Solomon Islands Tour Guide \| iExplore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Solomon Islands archipelago is scattered in the southwestern Pacific, east of Papua New Guinea.
		The Solomon Islands are a remote and unspoilt travel destination, with a slowly developing tourist industry.
		Guadalcanal, Malaita, Choiseul, New Georgia, San Cristobal and Santa Isabel are the main islands.
	www.concierge.iexplore.com /dmap/Solomon+Islands/Overview (311 words)

	Solomon Islands
		A scattered archipelago of about 1,000 mountainous islands and low-lying coral atolls, the Solomon Islands lie east of Papua New Guinea and northeast of Australia in the south Pacific.
		The Japanese invaded the islands in World War II, and they were the scene of some of the bloodiest battles in the Pacific theater, most famously the battle of Guadalcanal.
		Incursions into Solomon Islands territory by PNG forces, who were countering secessionist action on neighboring Bougainville Island, gave rise to formal protests in mid-1997.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107975.html (702 words)

	Solomon Islands - Atlas Travel Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bilikiki Cruises Ltd. is the premiere dive operator in the Solomon Islands.
		South Pacific Organizer Solomon Islands travel with author David Stanley Destinations: travel to The Solomon...
		Politics of the Solomon Islands The Solomon Islands is a Constitutional Monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom recognised as the head of the State of Solomon Islands, a Commonwealth...
	www.atlastraveldirectory.com /dir/1/328 (277 words)

	Facts About Solomon Islands
		The UK established a protectorate over the Solomon Islands in the 1890s.
		Telecommunications are threatened by the nonpayment of bills and by the lack of technical and maintenance staff many of whom have left the country.
		The disintegration of law and order left the economy in tatters by mid-2003, and on 24 July 2003 more than 2000 Australian soldiers entered the Solomon Islands to restore order and to facilitate the restoration of basic services.
	worldfacts.us /Solomon-Islands.htm (720 words)

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