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| Name | Villages on Ranongga Island, Solomon Islands |
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| Description | Villages on Ranongga Island, Solomon Islands. |
| Type | Other |
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| Contributor | Mitchell Harrop |
| Entries | 19 |
| Allow ANPS? | No |
| Added to System | 2025-12-04 15:23:27 |
| Updated in System | 2025-12-05 09:50:45 |
| Subject | Settlement, Villages |
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| Creator | Debra McDougall |
| Publisher | The University of Mebourne |
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Buri is a large Seventh-day Adventist village established by people of Mondo in the 1920s. This location is marked using the coordinates of the Buri Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Date: 2025-11-06
Source: Described in McDougall, Debra. 2016. Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands. ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 6. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-020-9
Language: GHN
Type: Village
Keara is a United Church village. Pin at village church.
Source: Described in McDougall, Debra. 2016. Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands. ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 6. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-020-9
Date: 2025-11-06
Language: LGA
Type: Village
Keiqolo (also spelled Keigolo) is a Seventh-day Adventist community that relocated from the village of Mondo after the 2007 earthquake. Pin at village church.
Source: Personal visit
Language: GHN; LGA
Type: Village
Koriovuku is a mainly United Church village established on alienated land that was the site of the Emu Harbor Plantation after a 1952 earthquake caused landslides on the west coast of the island. Families were resettled from Kudu and Sabala villages. Pin is at Koriovuku church.
Date: 2025-11-06
Source: Described in McDougall, Debra. 2016. Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands. ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 6. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-020-9
Language: GHN, LGA
Type: Village
Kolomali is a village. This location is marked using Kolomali UC Chapel.
Type: Village
Koqu is a United Church village, with the pin at the church. Home of the late Eroni Kumana, who was one of the Solomon Islanders who rescued future US President John F Kennedy in 1943. Pin at United Church.
Source: Described in McDougall, Debra. 2016. Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands. ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 6. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-020-9. On Kumana, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biuku_Gasa_and_Eroni_Kumana
Language: LGA
Type: Village
An old village perched high above the shore that is mainly United Church. Many Kudu people relocated to Koriovuku in the 1950s and 1960s.
Source: Described in McDougall, Debra. 2016. Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands. ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 6. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-020-9
Language: LGA
Type: Village
Lale is the largest village of Luqa, and second to Buri overall. The largest church is United Church, but there are many smaller churches. Pin at United Church.
Source: Described in McDougall, Debra. 2016. Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands. ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 6. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-020-9
Language: GHN; LGA
Type: Village
Mondo was once a centre of population on the west coast and the first village to convert to Seventh-day Adventism. Part of the village relocated to Keiqolo after the 2007 earthquake. Pin at church.
Source: Described in McDougall, Debra. 2016. Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands. ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 6. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-020-9
Language: GHN
Type: Village
Ngaidavala is a United Church village. Pin is at the church Source: Described in McDougall, Debra. 2016. Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands. ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 6. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-020-9
Language: LGA
Type: Village
Village established in 1970s, combing hamlets Niu Ole, Babagea, and Retona. Former are United Church, and Retona has been Jehovah's Witness. Pin on Niu Bare United Church.
Source: Described in McDougall, Debra. 2016. Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands. ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 6. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-020-9
Language: GHN; LGA
Type: Village
Paqe is a United Church village, with the pin at the church.
Source: Described in McDougall, Debra. 2016. Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands. ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 6. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-020-9. On Kumana, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biuku_Gasa_and_Eroni_Kumana
Date: 2025-11-06
Language: LGA
Type: Village
Patu is a village. This location is marked using Patu SDA Church.
Type: Village
Major United Church village that is one of the oldest in the Kubokota area. Pin is at the village church.
Source: Described in McDougall, Debra. 2016. Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands. ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 6. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-020-9
Language: Kubokota (GHN)
Type: Village
Rava is marked based on the Church area.
Type: Village
Sabala is a dispersed village with a United Church and several others. Once on the coast, it relocated after the 2007 earthquake. Pin on United Church.
Date: 2025-11-06
Source: Described in McDougall, Debra. 2016. Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands. ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 6. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-020-9
Language: GHN
Type: Village
Saevuke is a United Church village, one of the few that still does not have a primary school. Pin is at the church.
Source: Described in McDougall, Debra. 2016. Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands. ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 6. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-020-9
Date: 2025-11-06
Language: GA
Type: Village
Vonga, also called Niami, is a Seventh-day Adventist village established in the 1960s by retired missionaries originally from Mondo and Buri. Pin at church.
Source: Described in McDougall, Debra. 2016. Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands. ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 6. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-020-9
Date: 2025-11-06
Language: GHN
Type: Village
Large United Church village established near site of Aena plantation in twentieth century. Name probably from an area in Malaita. Pin near village church
Source: Described in McDougall, Debra. 2016. Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands. ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 6. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-020-9
Date: 2025-11-06
Language: LGA
Type: Village