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    The Nggela Islands, previously known as the Florida Islands, are a small island group in the Central Province of Solomon Islands, a sovereign state, since...
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    one of the provinces of Solomon Islands, covering the Russell Islands, Nggela Islands (Florida Islands) and Savo Island. Its area comprises 615 square...
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    Province Russell Islands Nggela Islands (Florida Islands) Nggela Sule (Florida Island) Tulagi (Tulaghi) Gavutu Tanambogo Savo Island Guadalcanal Province...
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    Bougainville Island was part of a single landmass known as "Greater Bougainville", which spanned from the northern tip of Buka Island to the Nggela Islands. The...
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    throughout the ship. World Discoverer still sits in Roderick Bay of the Nggela Islands with a 46° list. The closest salvage companies, stationed in Australia...
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    Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons, is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Melanesia, part...
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  • known as Nggela [ᵑgela] and formerly as Florida, is an Oceanic language spoken in the Nggela Islands, in the middle of the Solomon Islands. It belongs...
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  • archaeological site Buena Vista or Vatilau, an island in the Nggela Islands, Central Province, Solomon Islands Battle of Buena Vista, a battle in the Mexican–American...
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  • Gavutu (redirect from Gavutu Island)
    in the Central Province of Solomon Islands, some 500 metres (550 yards) in length. It is one of the Nggela Islands. The first recorded sighting by Europeans...
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  • David Tiva Kapu (category Solomon Islands Anglicans)
    State?" analyzed the role of church and state relationship in Nggela Islands, Solomon Islands from 1932 to 2007. Reverend Kapu has served as the academic...
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    Island, while the captain and crew of Dancing Wave were killed at the Nggela Islands. Blackbirders would sometimes make their vessels look like missionary...
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  • with the Solomon Scouts. Islands portal Desert island List of islands Borthwick, John (12 February 2016). "Solomon Islands: In Kennedy's footsteps"....
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    northeast of Guadalcanal are divided by reefs into (from north to south) Nggela Channel, Sealark Channel and Lengo Channel. They connect Ironbottom Sound...
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  • Massacre". Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia 1893-1978. Retrieved 24 March 2014. "Sandfly Passage, Nggela, Incident, 1880". Solomon Islands Historical...
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  • also known as Ngela Nggela Islands, also known as the Florida Islands, a small island group in the Central Province of Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific...
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  • Solomon Islands Protectorate, there were initially 12 administrative districts: Choiseul, Eastern Solomons, Gizo, Guadalcanal, Lord Howe, Malaita, Nggela and...
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    Yellow-throated white-eye (category Birds of the Solomon Islands)
    Zosteropidae. It is found in the Solomon Islands archipelago (Bougainville, Choiseul, Santa Isabel and Nggela Islands). BirdLife International (2016). "Zosterops...
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    spoken in the Solomon Islands archipelago which covers a broader area than the nation state of Solomon Islands, and includes the island of Bougainville, which...
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    Harbor, Nggela Islands, FPO# 705, seaplane base Carter City at Mbolo, Bolo, Florida Islands, large Naval Supply and repair depot Makambo Island PT Boat...
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  • Bower and four crew of the schooner HMS Sandfly who were killed in the Nggela Islands in October 1880. The Emerald spend 2 months attempting to locate the...
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    Tanambogo (category Islands of the Solomon Islands)
    Tanambogo is a small island in the Central Province of Solomon Islands in the Nggela Islands group, which was also known as the Florida Islands under the British...
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  • List of archipelagos (category Lists of islands)
    Loyalty Islands New Guinea Shepherd Islands Solomon Islands Solomon Islands (country) Duff Islands Santa Cruz Islands Nggela Islands New Georgia Islands Reef...
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    volcanic islands of Choiseul, Guadalcanal, Makira, Malaita, New Georgia, the Nggelas, Santa Isabel, and the Shortlands. The Santa Cruz Islands are not...
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    Purvis Bay (category Bays of the Solomon Islands)
    Nggela Islands, part of the Solomon Islands. Purvis Bay is the sheltered area to the south of the island Nggela Sule (referred to as Florida Island during...
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    Autonomous Region of Bougainville (category Islands Region (Papua New Guinea))
    "Greater Bougainville" that spanned from the northern tip of Buka Island to the Nggela Islands north of Guadalcanal. The first inhabitants of Bougainville were...
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  • Sandfly Colliery Tramway Sandfly Bay Sandfly, an island among the Nggela Islands of the Solomon Islands HMS Sandfly, several ships This disambiguation page...
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    Park in Rove, Honiara, Solomon Islands. The memorial is shaped like the bow of a ship, and points toward Savo Island. A previous memorial to the ship...
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    Tulagi (redirect from Tulagi Island)
    Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1896 to 1942 and is today the capital of the Central Province. The capital of what is now the state of Solomon Islands moved...
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    War II took place on the islands for almost three years. Tulagi, the seat of the British administration on the island of Nggela Sule in Central Province...
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    their mission and sailed for Purvis Bay, located in the Nggela Islands, part of the Solomon Islands from which Lang and two other destroyers escorted five...
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