Melanesia; Melanesians; Wantoks («one individuals,» folks from the Melanesian area sharing certain faculties, particularly the utilization of pidgin English)

Solomon Islands

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Identification. When Spanish explorer Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira visited the Solomon isles in 1568, he found some silver during the lips of what exactly is now the Mataniko River. By way of a change of an amused fate, he mistakenly thought that this could be one of many places by which King Solomon (the Israelite monarch) acquired gold for their temple in Jerusalem. Mendaña then known as the islands after King Solomon—Solomon Islands.

The islands are most common to your world that is outside the World War II battles that have been fought here, especially on Guadalcanal. Peace prevailed for most of the rest of the century in a national nation that was often called the «Happy Islands,» until ethnic conflict erupted in belated 1998. Sigue leyendo →