Solomon Islands Definition

Solomon Islands Sentence Examples

• Wallace (who includes the Solomon Islands as well as New Guinea in the group) points out that the archipelago "includes two islands larger than Great Britain; and in one of them, Borneo, the whole of the British Isles might be set down, and would be surrounded by a sea of forests.

• In the South Pacific the northwest monsoon of Australia affects a belt running east of New Guinea to the Solomon Islands.

• Alvaro Mendana de Neyra, after crossing a vast extent of ocean from Peru and sighting only one island, probably in the Ellice group, reached the Solomon Islands.

• The administrative area includes the German Solomon Islands and the Caroline, Pelew and Mariana Islands, which are divided into three administrative groups - the eastern Carolines, western Carolines and Marianas.

• The Solomon Islands are, in the Pacific, the eastern limit of the use of the shield.