Solomon Islands

Iles Salomon

     Les îles Salomon sont une double chaîne d'îles dans le Pacifique occidental qui s'étend de Vanuatu à Bougainville. Il ya plus de 900 îles, dont les principales sont Guadalcanal, Choiseul, Malaita, la Nouvelle-Géorgie et Santa Isabel.
   
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NW Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan) is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Antarctic in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia ...

Vanikoro

French explorer Jean-François de La Pérouse was stranded on Vanikoro after both his vessels, La Boussole and the Astrolabe, struck the then unknown reefs of the island in 1788. It is reported that some of the men were killed by the local inhabitants, whilst the surviving sailors ...