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	Solomon Islands - Country Information Paper - NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
		Solomon Islands is predominantly Christian with 45% Anglican, 18% Roman Catholic, 12% United (Methodist/Presbyterian) and 9% Baptist.
		Solomon Islands is a member of many regional and international bodies, including the United Nations, the WTO, the Commonwealth, the Pacific Islands Forum and many other regional bodies, as well as the sub-regional Melanesian Spearhead Group.
		The Solomon Islands was the scene of some of the bloodiest land, sea and air battles of World War II from 1942 to 1945 and the capital moved from Tulagi (in the Florida Islands, Central Province) to Honiara (adjacent to the strategic Henderson Airfield on Guadalcanal Province) in 1944.
	www.mfat.govt.nz /Countries/Pacific/Solomon-Islands.php (3352 words)

	Solomon Islands campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Solomon Islands – Gilbert and Marshall Islands – Marianas and Palau – Volcano and Ryūkyū Islands
		The campaign began with Japanese landings and occupation of several areas in the north, central, and southern islands of the Solomon Islands during the first six months of 1942.
		The Allied landings initiated a series of combined-arms battles between the two advesaries, beginning with the Guadalcanal campaign, continuing with several battles in the central and northern Solomons on and around New Georgia and Bougainville Islands, and ending with the surrender of Japan in August, 1945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solomon_Islands_campaign (740 words)

	Solomon Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The capital of Honiara on Guadalcanal was increasingly populated by migrants from the island of Malaita.
		In July 2003, Australian and Pacific Island police and troops arrived in the Solomon Islands under the auspices of the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI).
		The political stage of the Solomon Islands is further influenced by its diplomatic importance to the Republic of China on Taiwan and the People's Republic of China.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solomon_Islands (2747 words)

	Solomon Islands: Women confronting violence - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The Solomon Islands Parliament passed special legislation to allow for the legal operation of foreign troops and police, and RAMSI officers were given an extensive mandate to end hostilities, arrest and detain suspected perpetrators of any crimes under Solomon Islands criminal law, if necessary with the use of lethal force.
		Currently, Solomon Islands is one of six Pacific island countries without a woman member of parliament.(38) In the 2001 elections, in which campaigning was overshadowed by reports of voter intimidation in both Guadalcanal and Malaita, senior women’s rights activist Afu Billy stood as candidate for East Malaita but lost by two votes.
		The Solomon Islands are a constitutional monarchy with the British Queen Elizabeth II as head of state, represented in the country since July 2004 by Governor General Nathaniel Waena.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engasa430012004 (17425 words)

	World InfoZone - Solomon Islands Facts
		From 1899 until 1976 the United Kingdom governed the Solomon Islands, apart from the War years of 1942 to 1945 when the Japanese occupied the islands.
		The monarch of the UK, Elizabeth II, became the Chief of State of the Solomon Islands in 1952 and is represented by a Governor General.
		The Solomon Islands is a member of the University of the South Pacific in Suva (Fiji).
	www.worldinfozone.com /facts.php?country=SolomonIslands (376 words)

	Solomon Islands
		The Solomon Islands are made up of more than 990 islands, which together cover a land mass of 28,000 square kilometres.
		The main islands are Choiseul, Guadalcanal, Santa Isabel, San Cristobal, Malaita and New Georgia.
		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 palm trees.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /solomon_islands/introduction.html (65 words)

	WWF South Pacific Programme \| Welcome to the Solomon Islands
		The Solomon Islands Archipelago, along with the entire Bismarck and Solomon Seas, are amongst the highest global marine priorities of conservation organisations.
		The Solomon Islands 1998 fisheries regulations bans the commercial harvest and sale of sea turtles, but the sale and consumption of turtle meat is still common as subsistence by local communities.
		WWF Solomon Islands will work with partners, such as the Departments of Environment and Conservation and the Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources to create awareness on the regulations and national policies that offer sea turtles protection within Solomon Islands waters.
	www.wwfpacific.org.fj /where_we_work/solomons/index.cfm (753 words)

	Pacific Magazine: SOLOMON ISLANDS: Former PM Wins Election, Returns To Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The former Solomon Islands Prime Minister who was removed from power in the 2000 coup has been returned to Parliament by the people in his electorate.
		Bartholomew Ulufa'alu leads the Solomon Islands Liberal Party but the Australian Government rejected his pleas for Australian police to help him restore law and order when the ethnic violence began to escalate in 1999.
		Mr Ulufa'alu who is one of the few politicians to campaign on a platform of setting a time limit for the RAMSI operation has won his seat comfortably.
	www.pacificislands.cc /pina/pinadefault2.php?urlpinaid=21283 (396 words)

	Solomon Islands by Hamel & Mercier (SEVE)
		Although victorious, the fierce campaign led by the Allied to recover the islands scattered nightmarish memories, sadly rekindled by the rusted relics sprayed over land and sea.
		Still, not so far from the main islands of the Guadalcanal and Western provinces, echoes of the ancient and primitive ways remain strong in the deep bush, where human presence is only given away by fragile wisps of smoke over the dense canopy of leaves.
		Still sheathed in their original primitive beauty, the Solomon Islands perfectly fit the description of an exotic paradise, although they have much more to offer than crystal clear lagoons, powdery beaches and deserted islands.
	www.ucs.mun.ca /~amercier/solom.html (789 words)

	SOLOMON ISLANDS
		But they failed in their main effort to take Midway Island, northwest of Hawaii, and in the naval battles of the Coral Sea and Midway in May and June they lost the bulk of their best naval pilots and planes.
		After Guadalcanal, Phase II of the Solomons campaign began in late June 1943, in the Central Solomons.
		Many of the Japanese who had survived Guadalcanal, New Georgia or other Solomon Islands were evacuated to Bougainville as their positions fell to the Allies or were bypassed and cut off.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_ww2_ops_battles_1943solomons.php (868 words)

	Solomon Islands
		Although a peace agreement formally ending the conflict was signed in October 2000, subsequent governments had limited success in their efforts to restore peace, due to political and institutional weaknesses and the public's perception that their leaders were beholden to one or the other of the conflicting parties.
		In late July, the Regional Assistance Mission for Solomon Islands (RAMSI), a multinational police-centered force organized by Australia, arrived in the country at the invitation of the Government and began to assist the Government in restoring law and order and rebuilding the country's institutions.
		The Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC), a statutory body directly under the Prime Minister's office, broadcast to most of the country; however, due to technical problems, SIBC reception on the outer islands was limited to early morning and evening hours.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27789.htm (5647 words)

	Guadalcanal Campaign - Wikimedia Commons
		Solomon and Santa Cruz Islands and New Caledonia area, 1942.
		Tulagi Island, Solomon Islands annotated vertical aerial photograph, prepared for planning purposes shortly before the island was captured by U.S. Marines on 7-8 August 1942.
		The High Command assembled on Guadalcanal in 1943, during the planning for the Northern Solomons campaign, this group includes many officers who played important roles in the operations to come.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Guadalcanal_Campaign (3911 words)

	Solomon Islands - Country information - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
		In the late 1990s, ethnic tensions between the people of the island of Guadalcanal (where the capital Honiara is situated) and settlers from the neighbouring island of Malaita led to violence, and later a coup in 2000.
		The mission was also endorsed by the Solomon Islands Cabinet and, unanimously, by the Solomon Islands Parliament. The Commonwealth Secretary-General and the Secretary-General of United Nations have commended the response by the region to the situation in Solomon Islands.
		The civil unrest of 18 and 19 April 2006 underlines the fragile situation in Solomon Islands and the importance of RAMSI’s presence.
	www.dfat.gov.au /geo/solomon_islands/helpemfren/index.html (1866 words)

	Solomon Islands underwater
		The Solomon Islands isn't one of the best known countries in the world, and it isn't one of the most popular tourist destinations either, so you're unlikely to find many resort goers lazing by the pool here.
		I met both American and Japanese veterans who had come here to reconnect with their history, the six months in 1942 and 1943 when the islands, and especially the airstrip called Henderson Field on the island of Guadalcanal, became the focus of the war in the Pacific, a no holds barred fight to the death.
		As well as the usual fish which you'll find around the Indian and Pacific oceans, the Solomons are home to an excellent array of brightly coloured and patterned nudibranches, which are also known by the less glamorous name "sea slugs".
	www.richard-seaman.com /Underwater/SolomonIslands/index.html (568 words)

	Battle of Savo Island - Avoo - Ask Us A Question - The Battle of Savo Island, also known as the First Battle of Savo ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The Battle of Savo Island, also known as the First Battle of Savo Island and, in Japanese sources, as the First Battle of the Solomon Sea (第一次ソロモン海戦), took place August 8–9, 1942, and was a naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II, between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval forces.
		The battle was the first major naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands campaign.
		As a result of the defeat, remaining Allied warships were forced to withdraw from the Solomon Islands area, temporarily conceding control of the seas around Guadalcanal to Japanese naval forces.
	www.sanpablocaus.com /details/Battle_of_Savo_Island (6313 words)

	The Solomon Islands Campaign, Guadalcanal to Rabaul — www.greenwood.com
		The Solomon Islands Campaign, Guadalcanal to Rabaul Historiography and Annotated Bibliography
		Description: Beginning in August 1942 and continuing through the end of 1943, when the Japanese base at Rabaul was isolated and bypassed, the Solomon Islands Campaign was conducted with combined Allied forces from the Southwest Pacific and Central Pacific commands and included several major amphibious landings, a dozen naval battles, and continuous air attacks.
		The book provides a comprehensive survey of the literature on the Solomon Islands Campaign and also points to gaps in the literature and areas where further research is needed.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/GR0059.aspx (287 words)

	Solomon Islands Naval Battles
		The Solomon Islands were the scene of the Pacific war's lengthiest and most bitterly fought naval campaign.
		Including the fighting in the immediate vicinity of Guadalcanal, more than a dozen battles raged in these confined waters.
		#1 = Battle of Eastern Solomons, August 23-25, 1942
	www.combinedfleet.com /solomon.htm (190 words)

	USS Farenholt (DD-491), Benson-class destroyer in World War II
		Coral Sea for the beginning of the Guadalcanal campaign, she remained attached to Wasp’s screen as other ships of her squadron—Aaron Ward, Buchanan, Laffey, Duncan, Lansdowne, and Lardner—arrived and joined the formation.
		For the occupation of Rendova that launched the campaign, 30 June, she, Woodworth, Buchanan, McCalla and Gwin escorted transports into Blanche Channel and bombarded shore targets.
		On 22 September, she sailed to accept the surrender of islands in the southern Ryukyus and in the Sakishima Gunto.
	www.destroyerhistory.org /benson-gleavesclass/ussfarenholt/index.html (1110 words)

	WW2DB: Solomon Islands Campaign
		The five large islands were originally bypassed by the Japanese in favor of skipping to Guadalcanal, but as the American Marines garrisoned the captured Henderson Field, the strategy was revised as more land-based planes were needed to strike Guadalcanal.
		The next target with the Island Hopping campaign was the island of Bougainville, a former German colony that was mandated to Australia in 1919 after WW1.
		Rabaul on the island of New Britain in the Bismarck Archipelago was the stronghold of Japanese defense near the Solomon Islands and New Guinea.
	www.ww2db.com /battle_spec.php?battle_id=8 (6888 words)

	TDS; Passports, Visas, Travel Documents
		European traders and missionaries arrived in the first half of the 19th century, and the resulting disruption led to increasingly serious wars among the native Fijian confederacies.
		One Ratu (chief), Cakobau, gained limited control over the western islands by the 1850s, but the continuing unrest led him and a convention of chiefs to cede Fiji unconditionally to the British in 1874.
		The pattern of colonialism in Fiji during the following century was similar to that in many other British possessions: the pacification of the countryside, the spread of plantation agriculture, and the introduction of Indian indentured labor.
	www.traveldocs.com /fj/history.htm (911 words)

	Control Arms campaign for tougher controls on the arms trade
		The Control Arms campaign is calling for an international, legally-binding Arms Trade Treaty to ease the suffering caused by irresponsible weapons transfers.
		Campaigners around the world are celebrating a significant victory after more than 80 governments participated in the UN consultation process on an Arms Trade Treaty.
		The Control Arms campaign is asking parliamentarians around the world to sign a declaration, which calls on governments to make swift progress towards an Arms Trade Treaty.
	www.controlarms.org (308 words)

	East Carolina University
		A shipboard diary reflects fleet movements, enemy sightings and torpedo attacks, campaigns, and a sweep of Leyte Gulf that was delayed by a typhoon.
		An Episcopalian, she was appointed treasurer of the Missionary District (Diocese) of the Philippine Islands on February 10, 1931, and was working in Manila in 1942 when she was interned as an "enemy alien" by the invading Japanese army.
		Specific accounts include engagements in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaigns; kamikaze attacks; action in the Aleutian Islands; the bombardment of the islands of Guam and Rota; and the end of World War II in the Pacific Ocean.
	www.history.navy.mil /sources/nc/ere.htm (16751 words)

	Radio Australia - Asia Pacific - Programs - SOLOMON ISLANDS: Information campaign for Australian-led intervention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Australian soldiers and police could be in Solomon Islands from next week, to begin laying the groundwork for a return to law and order, and stable government.
		They will be able to go out to their gardens, or go to the schools, walk in the streets of Honiara without this fear that there are going to be militants there with guns who threaten them.
		All this as grassroots Solomon Islanders are told, some for the first time, what it means for them, when their government, seeks the help of the region in trying to straighten out its affairs.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/asiapac/programs/s904932.htm (412 words)

	DiF Campaign Overview
		At the start of a campaign each player is given a group of aircraft and their pilots.
		This campaign is not meant to simulate any specific battle, but to place an overview of bombing and oceanic operations by the British and German air forces and navies in 1941.
		When you think of island paradise, Malta is one of the most beautiful of all islands in the world, but in World War Two, Malta was one of the most contested pieces of real estate on the planet.
	www.battlefront.com /products/dif/campaign.html (2031 words)

	International force lands in Solomon Islands
		The first troops from a multinational intervention force arrived in the troubled Solomon Islands on Thursday.
		The Solomon Islands' government requested intervention because it has lost control to armed militants and criminals amid corruption in the police force, government and public service.
		Ethnic tension between the people of Guadalcanal and Malaita, which are neighbouring islands, erupted in the mid-1990s and led to a coup in 2000.
	www.cbc.ca /news/story/2003/07/24/solomon_islands030724.html (1209 words)

	Find out more about the Control Arms Campaign
		By 2020, the number of deaths and injuries from war and violence will overtake the number of deaths caused by killer diseases such as malaria and measles.
		Campaigners for an Arms Trade Treaty attempt fastest lobby of every government in the world
		Control Arms campaigners blog from New York, as the United Nations' First Committee get ready to vote for an Arms Trade Treaty
	www.controlarms.org /find_out_more (249 words)

	Solomon Islands
		The Solomon Islands is a multiparty parliamentary democracy with a population of approximately 480 thousand.
		In 2003 the Regional Assistance Mission for Solomon Islands (RAMSI), a multinational police-centered force organized by Australia, arrived in the country at the government's invitation to assist in restoring law and order and rebuilding the country's institutions.
		Among the reasons cited for the failure to report many incidents of abuse were pressure from male relatives, fear of reprisals, feelings of shame, and cultural taboos on discussion of such matters.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61627.htm (4328 words)

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