Solomon Islands (archipelago)
The Solomon Islands are a Melanesian archipelago in the South-Western Pacific Ocean, northeast of Australia. The archipelago covers the province of Bougainville Island, an autonomous province of Papua New Guinea and the nation state of Solomon Islands.
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Famous quotes containing the words solomon and/or islands:
“Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our
vines have tender grapes.”
—Bible: Hebrew The Song of Solomon (l. II, 15)
“we are so many
and many within themselves
travel to far islands but no one
asks for their story....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)