Malaita

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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/23150

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"Malaita is the primary island of Malaita Province in Solomon Islands. Malaita is the most populous island of the Solomon Islands, with a population of 140,000, or more than a third of the entire national population. It is also the second largest island in the country by area, after Guadalcanal. A tropical and mountainous island, Malaita´s pristine river systems and tropical forests have not been exploited.[citation needed]

The largest city and provincial capital is Auki, on the northwest coast and is on the northern shore of the Langa Langa Lagoon. The people of the Langa Langa Lagoon and the Lau Lagoon on the northeast coast of Malaita call themselves wane i asi ‘salt-water people’ as distinct from wane i tolo ‘bush people’ who live in the interior of the island." - (en.wikipedia.org 23.09.2020)
Latitude
-9
Longitude
161
Time zone
Pacific/Guadalcanal

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