Villages on Ranongga Island, Solomon Islands.

]]> 156.53949,-7.93826 #TLCMapStyle 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

]]> 156.562287454365,-8.12826250762111 #TLCMapStyle 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

]]> 156.5424998074476,-8.030835319101886 #TLCMapStyle 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

]]> 156.5550789557158,-7.945258035730923 #TLCMapStyle 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

]]> 156.57043772897,-7.97713435556409 #TLCMapStyle Kolomali is a village. This location is marked using Kolomali UC Chapel.

Type: Village

]]> 156.6117262756478,-8.12875008915953 #TLCMapStyle 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

]]> 156.5330549851126,-8.090347617107133 #TLCMapStyle 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

]]> 156.5800460299401,-8.17236226546401 #TLCMapStyle 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

]]> 156.537351201845,-8.03766819708246 #TLCMapStyle 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

]]> 156.5719617761472,-8.154122850322805 #TLCMapStyle 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

]]> 156.5805471311019,-8.011599424454042 #TLCMapStyle 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

]]> 156.6027509889665,-8.110139256572472 #TLCMapStyle 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

]]> 156.5756826393487,-7.984724765084009 #TLCMapStyle Patu is a village. This location is marked using Patu SDA Church.

Type: Village

]]> 156.5841805555556,-8.028225 #TLCMapStyle 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

]]> 156.5785297084527,-7.994666216927145 #TLCMapStyle Rava is marked based on the Church area.

Type: Village

]]> 156.5453654073186,-8.012807569647187 #TLCMapStyle 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

]]> 156.5511711193781,-8.110910214408742 #TLCMapStyle 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

]]> 156.5912093812784,-8.043650989613162 #TLCMapStyle 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

]]> 156.6018179055362,-8.092864227443142 #TLCMapStyle 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

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