Solomon Islands (archipelago)

Solomon Islands (archipelago)

The Solomon Islands are a Melanesian archipelago in the South-Western Pacific Ocean, northeast of Australia. The archipelago covers the province of Bougainville Island, an autonomous province of Papua New Guinea and the nation state of Solomon Islands.

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    “God gave Solomon very great wisdom, discernment, and breadth of understanding as vast as the sand on the seashore...”
    —Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 4:29.

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    what is Naxos, Tinos, Andros,
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