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Banie (island)
Banie () is the main island of the Vanikoro group, in the Temotu province of the Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capita .... The only other inhabited island of the group is the smaller island of Teanu or Tevai. Name The island of Banie receives its name from its highest mountain, mount Banie. The local population sometimes uses ''Banie'' as a way to designate the whole Vanikoro group. References External links Maps of Vanikoro, showing location of Banie Islands of the Solomon Islands {{SolomonIslands-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanikoro
Vanikoro (sometimes wrongly named ''Vanikolo'') is an island in the Santa Cruz group, located to the Southeast of the main Santa Cruz group. It is part of the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. The name ''Vanikoro'' is always used as though it referred to a single island, due to both its geophysical and cultural unity. However, technically it is a group of several nearby islands surrounded by a single belt of coral reef. Only the two major islands are inhabited: the bigger one Banie, and the smaller one Teanu (or Tevai). Other, uninhabited islets in the Vanikoro group include Manieve, Nomianu and Nanunga. The total area of the Vanikoro group is . Population and languages The of Vanikoro consist of two different populations, who tend to live separately. The Melanesian majority, about 800 people, are the descendants of the original population of Vanikoro. As far as we know, they have been present on the island since Lapita times – about 3,200 years ago. A minority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temotu Province
Temotu (or Te Motu, literally "the island" in Polynesian) is the easternmost province of Solomon Islands. The province was formerly known as Santa Cruz Islands Province. It consists, essentially, of two chains of islands which run parallel to each other from the northwest to the southeast. Its area is . Administrative divisions Temotu Province is sub-divided into the following wards: Temotu Province (pop 21,362) * Reef Islands ** Polynesian Outer Islands (353) ** Fenualoa (1,305) ** Nipua/Nopoli (880) ** Lipe/Temua (796) ** Manuopo (1,030) ** Nenumpo (1,163) * Santa Cruz Islands ** Graciosa Bay (1,264) ** North East Santa Cruz (1,843) ** Nanggu/Lord Howe (1,863) ** Nea/Noole (1,770) ** Nevenema (947) ** Luva Station (2,335) ** Neo (1,558) * isolated islands and groups ** Duff Islands (509) ** Utupua (1,168) ** Vanikoro (1,293) ** Tikopia (1,285) Islands The islands or island groups which make up the province are: * Anuta * Duff Islands (including Taumako) * Fatutaka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capital, Honiara, is located on the largest island, Guadalcanal. The country takes its name from the wider area of the Solomon Islands (archipelago), which is a collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (currently a part of Papua New Guinea), but excludes the Santa Cruz Islands. The islands have been settled since at least some time between 30,000 and 28,800 BCE, with later waves of migrants, notably the Lapita people, mixing and producing the modern indigenous Solomon Islanders population. In 1568, the Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña was the first European to visit them. Though not named by Mendaña, it is believed that the islands were called ''"the Solomons"'' by those who later receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teanu (island)
Teanu (or ''Tevai'') is the second island in size of the Vanikoro group, in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. It is located northeast of the main island of the group, Banie. Population Teanu has currently only one inhabited village, Puma. Teanu has given its name to Teanu, the main language of Vanikoro. The latter is sometimes known also as ''Puma''. In popular culture The latitude and longitude coordinates of the virtual cycling world of Watopia on the Zwift cycling platform coincide with this island, and websites such as Strava Strava is an American internet service for tracking physical exercise which incorporates social network features. It is mostly used for cycling and running using Global Positioning System data. Strava uses a freemium model with some features on ... therefore show Zwift rides overlain on a map of Teanu even though Teanu has no roads and rides seem to frequently cross between water and land. References External links Maps of Vanikoro, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teanu Language
Teanu (or ''Puma'', ''Buma'') is the main language spoken on the island of Vanikoro, in the easternmost province of the Solomon Islands. About the language Name The language receives its name from Teanu, the island located northeast of the Vanikoro island group. The same language has also been known in the literature as ''Puma'' (or wrongly ''Buma''), after the main village of Teanu island.. Sources The very first source about the languages of Vanikoro were wordlists collected in 1834 by French naturalist Joseph Paul Gaimard, as he took part in the first voyage of ''Astrolabe'' (1826-36) led by Dumont d'Urville. On top of his botanical and zoological work, Gaimard collected, and later published, about ten pages of wordlists in Teanu, Tanema and Lovono. In this work, the three languages were labelled respectively “Tanéanou”, “Tanema”, and “Vanikoro”. More data was collected in the 1980s by Australian linguist Darrell Tryon; he described Teanu using the name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
