Solomon Islands

Interesting Facts About Solomon Islands

• Solomon Islands is an archipelagic country consisting of six major islands and over 1,000 smaller islands in Melanesia, Oceania
• The capital and largest city, Honiara, is located on Guadalcanal, the largest island
• The country is adjacent to Bougainville to the west, New Caledonia and Vanuatu to the south-east, and Fiji, Tuvalu, and Wallis and Futuna to the east
• In April 2007, a magnitude 8.1 earthquake triggered a tsunami that killed at least 52 people and destroyed over 900 homes
• A tsunami from the April 2007 earthquake caused land upthrust on the island of Ranongga, extending the shoreline by up to 70 metres and exposing coral reefs
• In February 2013, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake in the Santa Cruz Islands generated a tsunami up to 1.5 metres high, killing at least nine people

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