Santa Isabel Island

E64894

Santa Isabel Island is one of the larger and more remote islands in the Solomon Islands archipelago in the South Pacific, known for its rugged terrain, dense rainforest, and traditional Melanesian communities.


Statements (56)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical feature
island
administrativeDivision Isabel Province
area about 2999 square kilometres
biodiversity rich marine biodiversity
rich terrestrial biodiversity
capitalOfProvince Buala
climate high rainfall
tropical rainforest climate
continent Oceania
country Solomon Islands
discoveredByEuropeans Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira
discoveryYear 1568
economy cocoa production
copra production
fishing
small-scale logging
subsistence agriculture
ethnicGroup Melanesians
Polynesian outliers
hasCoastline fringing coral reefs
hasFeature coastal lagoons
mangrove forests
mountain ranges
river valleys
hasSettlement Buala
Kia
Tirokiaba
highestPoint Mount Sasari
historicalEvent Solomon Islands campaign
surface form: World War II operations in Solomon Islands
knownFor dense rainforest
remoteness
rugged terrain
traditional Melanesian communities
landCover dense rainforest
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageSpoken Blablanga
Bughotu
Cheke Holo
Kokota
Zabana
length about 200 kilometres
locatedIn Melanesia
Solomon Islands
South Pacific Ocean
namedAfter Saint Isabel of Portugal
partOf Isabel Province
Solomon Islands
surface form: Solomon Islands archipelago
religion Anglicanism
Christianity
Roman Catholicism
terrain mountainous interior
rugged
timeZone UTC+11
traditionalBelief ancestral worship
customary land tenure

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Solomon Islands hasIsland Santa Isabel Island
Northwest Solomonic languages hasRegion Santa Isabel Island
British Solomon Islands Protectorate includes Santa Isabel Island
Choiseul Island nearbyIsland Santa Isabel Island