Nifiloli is an island in the

Reef Islands The Reef Islands are a loose collection of 16 islands in the northwestern part of the Solomon Islands province of Temotu. These islands have historically also been known by the names of Swallow Islands and Matema Islands. Geography The islan ...

(Latitude: 10° 10' 60 S, Longitude: 166° 13' 60 E), in 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 ...

province of Temotu. The estimated terrain elevation above sea level is 19 metres. Despite its location in

Melanesia Melanesia (, ) is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It extends from Indonesia's New Guinea in the west to Fiji in the east, and includes the Arafura Sea. The region includes the four independent countries of Fiji, Va ...

, the population of the islands is Polynesian. The language spoken on Nifiloli is

Pileni language Vaeakau-Taumako (formerly known as ''Pileni'') is a Polynesian language spoken in some of the Reef Islands as well as in the Taumako Islands (also known as the Duff Islands) in the Temotu province of the Solomon Islands. The language is spok ...

References

External links

Nifiloli on Solomonislands.com.sb

Islands of the Solomon Islands Polynesian outliers {{Solomons-geo-stub