Solomon Islands

The capital of Western Province and the second-largest town in the Solomon Islands, set on a small island in the New Georgia Islands group surrounded by some of the most productive and diverse dive sites in the Pacific.

The largest island in the Solomon Islands archipelago, dominated by a densely forested mountain spine, ringed by a thin inhabited coastline and famous for the six-month Pacific War campaign that consumed it in 1942-43.

The capital and largest city of the Solomon Islands, set on the northern coast of Guadalcanal facing Ironbottom Sound, a living WWII museum and the gateway to the archipelago's islands and reefs.

The easternmost of the main Solomon Islands, also known as San Cristobal, a large forested island with a dramatic mountainous interior, a deeply indented coastline of bays and inlets, and a small provincial capital at Kirakira on its northern coast.

The largest island in the Solomon Islands and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, famous for Lake Tegano, a large brackish lake at its centre that was once a marine lagoon, and for its Polynesian culture distinct from the Melanesian majority of the archipelago.

A small island in the Florida Islands group that served as the administrative capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1896 to 1952 and was the scene of fierce fighting during the Battle of Tulagi in May 1942.