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Solomon Islands

The Solomon Islands is a nation in the Pacific Ocean, located about 1,200 miles (1,900 kilometers) northeast of Australia. It is composed of a number of large islands and many smaller ones, stretching across the southwestern Pacific. The nation of the Solomon Islands includes the southern part of the larger Solomon Islands chain. The northern Solomons are part of the nation of Papua New Guinea. A former British protectorate, the Solomon Islands gained its independence in 1978.

People

Most Solomon Islanders are Melanesians, a dark-skinned people of the Western Pacific. English is the country's official language, but at least 80 different languages and dialects are spoken throughout the islands. The most commonly used form of communication is Melanesian Pidgin, a simplified form of English with words from other languages. Most islanders are Christians.

The people live mainly in small, widely scattered villages along the coasts of the larger islands. Most are subsistence farmers, growing food for their own needs.

Land

The major islands include Guadalcanal (the largest), Malaita (the most populous), Santa Isabela, Choiseul, New Georgia, San Christobel (or Makira), and the Santa Cruz group. The large islands are mountainous, with dense rain forests covering most of their interiors. The smaller ones are mainly low-lying atolls, or rings of coral surrounding a lagoon. The capital and largest city, Honiara, is situated on the island of Guadalcanal.

The climate is generally hot and humid. Rainfall is heavy, especially in inland areas.

Economy

Agriculture, fishing, and forestry are the mainstays of the islands' economy. Coconuts are the most important commercial crop, and copra (dried coconut meat) is a leading export. Palm kernels and palm oil, rice, and cocoa also are exported. Frozen and canned fish (mainly tuna) are one of the islands' chief sources of export income. The forests provide timber for export.

History and Government

Little is known of the early history of the Solomons, although its people originally may have come from Southeast Asia. The first Europeans to see the islands were the Spanish in the 1500s, who named them after the biblical King Solomon. Traders and missionaries later visited the islands. In the late 1800s, Britain established a protectorate over the southern Solomons.

The Solomons gained worldwide attention during World War II. Occupied by Japan in 1942, the islands, particularly Guadalcanal and New Georgia, were the scene of major battles between Japanese and U.S. military and naval forces. After the war, the islands gained increasing self-government and won complete independence in 1978.

After independence, rival ethnic groups fought over land rights on Guadalcanal, and there was a great deal of violence. In 2003, an Australian-led peacekeeping force went to the islands to restore order. By this time the economy was devastated. Australian troops were again sent to the Solomon Islands to restore order in 2006.

In April 2007, parts of the western Solomon Islands were devastated by a tsunami triggered by an earthquake. Several villages were wiped out. More than 50 people were killed, and thousands were made homeless. Another series of earthquakes in January 2010 triggered landslides and a tsunami on the sparsely populated island of Rendova. There were no casualties, but more than one-fourth of the people lost their homes. A tsunami in 2013 destroyed more than 100 homes and killed several people.

The Solomon Islands is a constitutional monarchy. The British monarch, represented by a governor-general, is the head of state. The head of government is the prime minister, who leads the majority party in the one-house legislature, the National Parliament.

The current prime minister, Manasseh Sogavare, was elected by the National Parliament in December 2014. Sogavare had been prime minister twice before.

Harold M. Ross
St. Norbert College (Wisconsin)

To document the sources that you used for your research you need to create a bibliography, or  Works Cited Page. This is a separate page document that comes at the end of your project, and lists all the sources your used in alphabetical order.  At PDS we use the MLA style, unless your teacher tells you otherwise.  Most electronic databases have the citations available to copy and paste, and for books you can use easybib.  But usually for websites you need to create your own bibliography.

Here is a link for citing electronic sources if you cannot cut and paste a citation:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/