A country · 28 places · 5 regions

Solomon Islands, all of it.

28 curated places across 5 regions — photographed, mapped, and noted with the season each is best in.

Marovo Lagoon · via Wikimedia Commons

The 4 biggest regions — Guadalcanal Province, Western Province, Central Province and Malaita Province — read below as chapters, with 1 more waiting past them.

Chapter I · Guadalcanal Province · 8 places

Guadalcanal Province

Honiara is the capital of the Solomon Islands, set on the north coast of Guadalcanal. It offers markets, a national museum and access to World War II battlefields and memorials on the surrounding island.

Honiara

Guadalcanal Province, Solomon Islands

✦ May to October · $$

Point Cruz

Guadalcanal Province, Solomon Islands

Mount Austen

Guadalcanal Province, Solomon Islands

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Chapter II · Western Province · 8 places

Western Province

Marovo Lagoon is one of the largest saltwater lagoons in the world, enclosed by a double barrier reef. Its maze of islands, villages and reefs is renowned for carving, diving and kayaking.

✦ May to October · $

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Chapter III · Central Province · 2 places

Central Province

A stretch of water between Guadalcanal and the Florida Islands where dozens of warships and aircraft sank during WWII. Its depths hold one of the world's densest concentrations of naval wrecks.

Iron Bottom Sound

Central Province, Solomon Islands

Tulagi

Central Province, Solomon Islands

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Chapter IV · Malaita Province · 1 place

Malaita Province

Ontong Java is one of the largest atolls in the world, a scattered ring of low coral islets in the Pacific. Its Polynesian community lives by fishing and gathering bêche-de-mer.

✦ May to October

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