Detailed interactive map Solomon Islands People
As part of the Melanesian group of islands that also includes Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Fiji, Solomon Islands was first settled by hunters and gatherers from Southeast Asia. Seafarers followed later.
Through the tracing of a distinct type of pottery called Lapita, archaeologists say the original settlers of Polynesia in eastern Pacific trace their origins back to Melanesia, to the Solomon Islands actually.
Today, between 70 to 80 percent of the population lives a subsistence form of life in their small villages, settlements and islands away from the main urban centres. As the muscles in their backs tighten underneath their sweating blue-black skin, the gaffer and his team are crouched on the ground, bending over the canoe. The war canoe in the village of Chubikope is being repaired. The last of its kind in the western Solomon Islands. The only war canoe still sailing all of Malenesia. It is spring 1995 and the place is the never-ending. bottle-green Pacific.
As the muscles in their backs tighten underneath their sweating blue-black skin, the gaffer and his team are crouched on the ground, bending over the canoe. The war canoe in the village of Chubikope is being repaired. The last of its kind in the western Solomon Islands. The only war canoe still sailing all of Malenesia. It is spring 1995 and the place is the never-ending. bottle-green Pacific.
As the muscles in their backs tighten underneath their sweating blue-black skin, the gaffer and his team are crouched on the ground, bending over the canoe. The war canoe in the village of Chubikope is being repaired. The last of its kind in the western Solomon Islands. The only war canoe still sailing all of Malenesia. It is spring 1995 and the place is the never-ending. bottle-green Pacific.
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