Population
Bellona Island is densely populated and its interior is lush and fertile. There are ten villages:
- Matahenua/Matamoana (west)
- Honga'ubea
- Tongomainge
- Ngotokanaba
- Pauta
- Ngongona
- Gongau
- Ahenoa
- Matangi
- NukuTonga (East)
Bellona Island is, like Rennell Island, a Polynesian-inhabited island within the Solomons, where most of the islands are primarily Melanesian with a few Micronesian island provinces. It is thus counted among the Polynesian outliers. The nearby Bellona Shoals were the site of several shipwrecks. On the western end of the island there were sacred stone-gods, at a place called Ngabenga- west Bellona. The stone-gods were destroyed by Seventh Day Adventist missionaries in 1938. This island was named at the beginning of the 19th century after Capt. Lord Rennell's ship Bellona. However, its original name is Mungiki.
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