Santa Isabel Island is the longest in the Solomon Islands, South Pacific, and the largest in Isabel Province.
Choiseul lies to the west, Malaita to the east. The Pacific Ocean lies to the north, and the Slot to the south.
The first European contact to the Solomon Islands was made here, by the Spanish explorer Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira in 1568 where a settlement was established and a boat built to survey and chart the surrounding sea and islands....
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Santa Isabel Island is the longest in the Solomon Islands, South Pacific, and the largest in Isabel Province.
Choiseul lies to the west, Malaita to the east. The Pacific Ocean lies to the north, and the Slot to the south.
The first European contact to the Solomon Islands was made here, by the Spanish explorer Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira in 1568 where a settlement was established and a boat built to survey and chart the surrounding sea and islands. Very soon however the Spanish aroused the enmity of the islanders. Having found no gold and little food, and beset by attacks and sickness, they shifted their colony to the site of today's Honiara on Guadalcanal. The highest point there is Mount Sasari, 1220 meters (3675 ft). River Marutho runs down that mountain into the ocean at Hofi. Almost all the rivers or streams run down that center point except for those at the other tip of the Island, Katova side.
The administrative centre is Buala, where the airport is as well. Another village on...
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