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36 destinations
Water Anuta
"Three hundred people, one mile of island, and a supply ship once or twice a year."
Water Are'are Coast
"Bamboo pipes in their dozens weave a melody that no single player is carrying."
Water Arnavon Islands
"Hawksbill turtles nest on beaches three communities agreed to stop hunting."
Water Bellona Island
"Everything arrives thrown through the surf at a cleft in the cliffs; Bellona has no harbour."
Water Bonegi Beach
"A freighter's bow still breaks the surface where she was beached in 1942."
Water Duff Islands
"Volcanic specks where elders still build ocean canoes and teach navigation without instruments."
Water Ghizo Island
"A 140-metre Japanese transport lies just seven metres down, a tank still in her holds."
Water Iron Bottom Sound
"So many warships sank here that the sound was renamed for the iron on its floor."
Water Kennedy Island
"A coral islet where a future president waited to be found, and two scouts found him."
Mountain Kolombangara
"A near-perfect volcanic cone with its rim broken open, and cloud forest all the way up."
Water Langa Langa Lagoon
"Islands built by hand from coral, where shell money still settles a marriage or a dispute."
Water Laulasi Island
"Seven tribes sealed peace with strands of shell money to reopen this hand-built island."
Water Marovo Lagoon
"Two barrier reefs enclose a lagoon holding its own islands, villages and generations of woodcarvers."
Water Mataniko Falls
"A waterfall drops through pools into a cave, a day's walk out of the capital."
Mountain Mount Popomanaseu
"The country's highest ground, 2,335 metres up through Guadalcanal forest with no trail infrastructure."
Water Munda
"A working lagoon town with wartime wrecks and living reef in the same water."
City Nendo
"Money made from red feathers came from here, and the memory of it has not gone."
Water Ontong Java Atoll
"One of the largest atolls on Earth, with people living on its scattered islets."
Water Ranongga Island
"An earthquake lifted this reef clear of the sea, and it never went back."
Water Reef Islands
"A six-guest lodge on one island, and reef in every direction from it."
Water Roviana Lagoon
"Villages still lived in and islands full of shrines sit in the same lagoon."
Water Santa Ana Island
"Canoe houses carved inside and out, on an island where the coffins are canoes too."
Mountain Savo Island
"Megapodes bury their eggs in black sand that an active volcano keeps warm from below."
Water Skull Island
"Coral platforms on a lagoon islet hold the skulls of Roviana chiefs, and permission comes first."
City Taro Island
"A provincial capital on an island low enough that the plan is to move it."
Water Tulagi
"The old capital's harbour still holds the flying boats the war left on its floor."
Water Uepi Island
"The reef drops into deep water a short swim from the lodge's beach."
Wilderness Vangunu Island
"A giant rat known to Zaira's forest for generations, and to science only since 2017."
Water Wagina Island
"Gilbertese families resettled here generations ago, and now farm seaweed off the lagoon."
Water Weather Coast
"Guadalcanal's southern shore has no road, and the sea decides when you travel it."
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Little-known places, unlike anywhere else, that leave you awestruck and full of stories.
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Beneath the sea, sharks share a crater with an active volcano.
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In these highlands, shell money and ancestral traditions endure by choice.
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A coral island has risen from the sea, keeping a brackish world inside.
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Its owners chose to leave it without inhabitants.
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Four chiefs, a ring of green, and gardens carefully counted.
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An expedition vanished. The reef kept its ships and traces of the survivors.
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