Back Salomon-Inseln ALS Solomon Island AMI Саламонавы астравы BE Соломонови острови Bulgarian Illes Salomó Catalan Solomon Islands (kapuloan sa Papua New Guinea) CEB Šalomounovy ostrovy (souostroví) Czech Salomon-Inseln German Salomonske kupy DSB Archipiélago de las islas Salomón Spanish
8°00′S 159°00′E / 8.000°S 159.000°E
&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Political_map_of_the_Solomon_Islands_archipelago_in_1989.jpg) The archipelago, with Papua New Guinea territories (Bougainville) in dun and Solomon Islands territories (excluding the Santa Cruz Islands) in beige. | |
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| Geography | |
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| Location | South Pacific Ocean |
| Major islands | Bougainville, Guadalcanal |
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The Solomon Islands (archipelago) is an island group in the western South Pacific Ocean, north-east of Australia. The archipelago is in the Melanesian subregion and bioregion of Oceania and forms the eastern boundary of the Solomon Sea. The many islands of the archipelago are distributed across the sovereign states of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. The largest island in the archipelago is Bougainville Island, which is a part of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (currently a part of Papua New Guinea) along with Buka Island, the Nukumanu Islands, and a number of smaller nearby islands. Much of the remainder falls within the territory of Solomon Islands and include the atolls of Ontong Java, Sikaiana, the raised coral atolls of Bellona and Rennell, and the volcanic islands of Choiseul, Guadalcanal, Makira, Malaita, New Georgia, the Nggelas, Santa Isabel, and the Shortlands. The Santa Cruz Islands are not a part of the archipelago.