Nalongo and Nupani is a small atoll in the Southwestern

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. It has a coral reef totally encircling a 6 km wide lagoon. Nupani Island, also called Nimba, is inhabited with some 100 people, while Nalongo has no permanent habitation. Administratively, the atoll belongs to the

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of the

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