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The islands have been settled since at least some time between 30,000 and 28,800 BC, with later waves of migrants, notably the Lapita people, mixing and producing the modern indigenous Solomon Islanders population. In 1568, the Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña was the first…
The east coast of Honshu, Japan, refers to the eastern seaboard of Japan’s largest island, facing the Pacific Ocean, and includes the populous metropolitan areas of Tokyo and the scenic, mountainous Tōhoku region in the northeast. Major cities like Tokyo…
Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about 110 are permanently inhabited—and more than 500 islets, amounting to a total land area of about 18,300 square kilometres (7,100 sq mi). The most outlying island group is…
The islands got their name from rats that were accidentally introduced by a Japanese shipwreck in the 1780s. A successful, government-funded program eradicated rats from Hawadax Island, leading to the island’s renaming and the restoration of its native birds and…
The islands got their name from rats that were accidentally introduced by a Japanese shipwreck in the 1780s. A successful, government-funded program eradicated rats from Hawadax Island, leading to the island’s renaming and the restoration of its native birds and…
The East Coast of New Zealand’s North Island, often called Tairāwhiti or Eastland, is a rugged, scenic region stretching from the Bay of Plenty down to Hawke’s Bay. Known as the first place in the world to greet the sun,…
Sumba has an area of 11,243.78 square kilometres (4,341.25 square miles), about the same size as Jamaica or the island of Hawaii. The population was 686,113 at the 2010 Census and 779,049 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as…
Samar, officially the Province of Samar, or also known as Western Samar, is a province in the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. Its capital is the city of Catbalogan while Calbayog is the most populous city in the…
Honshu, largest of the four main islands of Japan, lying between the Pacific Ocean (east) and the Sea of Japan (west). It forms a northeast–southwest arc extending about 800 miles (1,287 km) and varies greatly in width. The coastline extends…
The Bismarck Sea lies in the south-western Pacific Ocean within the Papua New Guinean exclusive economic zone. It is located north-east of the island of New Guinea and south of the Bismarck Archipelago. It has coastlines in districts of the…
