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Water Anuta
"Three hundred people share a coral speck half a mile across in the open Pacific."
Water Are'are Coast
"Pan pipe orchestras send polyphonic harmonies across the lagoon in a tradition predating all written record."
Water Arnavon Islands
"Hawksbill turtles crawl ashore on islands managed by rival tribes who declared a conservation truce."
Water Bellona Island
"A raised coral platform with no harbour — supplies arrive hurled through the surf."
Water Bonegi Beach
"Rusting WWII transport ships break the waterline at a beach where children snorkel through the hull."
Water Duff Islands
"Volcanic specks where Polynesian navigators landed millennia ago — descendants still sail by stars."
Water Ghizo Island
"Children paddle canoes over the Toa Maru wreck while reef sharks circle the hull below."
Water Iron Bottom Sound
"Divers descend into a strait where fifty warships sank in six months of night battle."
Water Kennedy Island
"The coral speck where a shipwrecked JFK carved a rescue plea into a coconut shell."
Mountain Kolombangara
"A near-perfect volcanic cone where concentric forest rings climb from reef to cloud."
Water Marovo Lagoon
"Turquoise corridors between coral walls where master carvers paddle ebony sculptures to your canoe."
Water Mataniko Falls
"Water crashes into a jungle gorge hiding caves where Japanese soldiers fought their last stand."
Mountain Mount Popomanaseu
"Cloud forest wraps the Solomons' highest summit, days of machete-cut trail above a roadless coast."
Water Munda
"A WWII airstrip turned dive hub, where barracuda patrol coral-crusted fighter plane wrecks."
City Nendo
"Red feather money still circulates on an island where Melanesian and Polynesian bloodlines converge."
Water Ontong Java Atoll
"One of Earth's largest atolls, home to a Polynesian society speaking a language heard nowhere else."
Water Reef Islands
"Coral islets scattered like gravel across open ocean, reached by canoe navigators reading the stars."
Water Roviana Lagoon
"Head-hunting shrines and coral petroglyphs line a lagoon that launched war canoe raids for centuries."
Water Santa Ana Island
"Dancers painted in lime and charcoal re-enact creation myths until dawn on a coral speck."
Mountain Savo Island
"Volcanic steam hisses through jungle where birds bury eggs in earth heated by magma."
Water Skull Island
"Ancestral skulls stacked in coral shrines on a jungle islet, guarded by their descendants."
City Taro Island
"A provincial capital where king tides creep through the streets, earmarked for abandonment to the sea."
Water Thousand Ships Bay
"Mendana's men saw a thousand canoes here and declared the islands held King Solomon's gold."
Mountain Tinakula
"An uninhabited volcano that drove its people out, still belching ash into the Pacific sky."
Water Tulagi
"Japanese float planes still rest in the harbour shallows of a bombarded colonial capital."
Water Uepi Island
"A reef drop-off plunging to abyss begins three fin-kicks from shore on a private island."
Wilderness Vangunu Island
"Locals described a giant tree-dwelling rat for decades before scientists believed them and found it."
Water Weather Coast
"No roads reach the southern coast — only canoes thread between waterfalls plunging into the sea."
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