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Solomon Islands   /sˈɑləmən ˈaɪləndz/   Listen
Solomon Islands

noun
1.
The southern Solomon Islands that since 1978 form an independent state in the British Commonwealth.
2.
The northernmost islands are part of Papua New Guinea; the remainder form an independent state within the British Commonwealth.  Synonym: Solomons.






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"Solomon Islands" Quotes from Famous Books



... Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia and Montenegro Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Spain Spratly Islands Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Svalbard ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency

... has disappeared into the interior of the Solomon Islands, and it is feared that he may have been devoured by the natives, as there has been a considerable revival of religious customs among the Polynesians." A real paragraph from a real Paper; only the ...
— Poems • G.K. Chesterton

... them, which used to prevail in various parts of the world, as in India, among some Chinese aboriginal tribes, the old Germans, the Thracians and Scythians, some of the Greeks, the Lithuanians, the Basutos, the natives of Congo and other African countries, the inhabitants of New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Fiji Islands, the Crees, Comanches, Caribs, and various other Indian tribes ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

... for cannibalistic feasts grew,—and it became a passion akin to the opium habit in some,—the supply of other meat had little to do with its continuance. In New Britain human bodies were sold in the shops; in the Solomon Islands victims were fattened like cattle, and on the upper Congo an organized traffic is carried on in these empty tenements of the ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien

... go further on to the wireless station. By that time it met with some resistance, but overcame it. A few days later another landing party had captured the members of the staff of the governor of New Pomerania, together with the governor himself, at Bougainville, Solomon Islands, whence they had fled. The wireless stations on the island of Yap, in the Carolines, and on Pleasant Island were destroyed ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) - The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne • Francis J. Reynolds, Allen L. Churchill, and Francis Trevelyan



Words linked to "Solomon Islands" :   state, Melanesia, Bougainville, Guadalcanal, archipelago, Solomons, Honiara, land, country



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