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NameFeatures on Ranongga Island, Solomon Islands
Description

Features on Ranongga Island, Solomon Islands. Features include roads, bodies of water and other places of note.

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ContributorMitchell Harrop
Entries9
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Added to System2025-12-04 15:24:47
Updated in System2025-12-05 09:53:13
Subject Features
CreatorDebra McDougall
PublisherThe University of Mebourne
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Logging Road

Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-8.0966987663562
Longitude
156.56290563044

Description

Path of a logging road derived from Airbus satelite photography, 2025.

Type: Road

Sources

TLCMap ID
te8803
Created At
2025-12-04 15:24:57
Updated At
2025-12-04 15:34:30

Leva Point

Placename
Leva Point
Type
Placename

Details

Latitude
-8.028366714267118
Longitude
156.587002189227

Description

Point south of Pienuna that was an important ancestral site and where women are not permitted to go.

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: Point

Sources

TLCMap ID
te8804
Created At
2025-12-04 15:24:57
Updated At
2025-12-04 15:35:16

Dae Point

Placename
Dae Point
Type
Placename

Details

Latitude
-8.07537695085808
Longitude
156.6044129360799

Description

Point which is the eastern boundary of Luqa and Kubokota territory.

Language: GHN; LGA

Type: Point

Sources

TLCMap ID
te8805
Created At
2025-12-04 15:24:57
Updated At
2025-12-04 15:35:47

New Georgia Sound

Placename
New Georgia Sound
Type
Placename

Details

Latitude
-7.89930104015991
Longitude
157.8505322815208

Description

A Sound in this context is "a relatively narrow channel between two larger areas of sea or between an island and the mainland" (https://www.thefreedictionary.com/sound).

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TLCMap ID
te8806
Created At
2025-12-04 15:24:57
Updated At
2025-12-04 15:36:44

Solomon Sea

Placename
Solomon Sea
Type
Placename

Details

Latitude
-8.429494446863126
Longitude
156.0089782771695

Description

Sources

TLCMap ID
te8807
Created At
2025-12-04 15:24:57
Updated At
2025-12-04 15:37:39

Pacific Ocean

Placename
Pacific Ocean
Type
Placename

Details

Latitude
-6.819240987127238
Longitude
159.4506088937199

Description

Sources

TLCMap ID
te8808
Created At
2025-12-04 15:24:57
Updated At
2025-12-04 15:37:51

Vonavona Lagoon

Placename
Vonavona Lagoon
Type
Placename

Details

Latitude
-8.260334398944732
Longitude
157.1196307050864

Description

Type: Lagoon

Sources

TLCMap ID
te8809
Created At
2025-12-04 15:24:57
Updated At
2025-12-04 15:38:16

Roviana Lagoon

Placename
Roviana Lagoon
Type
Placename

Details

Latitude
-8.33599227963476
Longitude
157.3222986104466

Description

Source: Various.

Language: RUG

Type: Lagoon

Sources

TLCMap ID
te880a
Created At
2025-12-04 15:24:57
Updated At
2025-12-04 15:39:01

Marovo Lagoon

Placename
Marovo Lagoon
Type
Placename

Details

Latitude
-8.478849548647313
Longitude
157.9858213322685

Description

Source: Various.

Language: MVO

Type: Lagoon

Sources

TLCMap ID
te880b
Created At
2025-12-04 15:24:57
Updated At
2025-12-04 15:40:02
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