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4 unusual facts about Temotu


Makalom

Makalom is a small uninhabited island in the Reef Islands, in the Solomon Islands province of Temotu.

Melanesian Brotherhood

The Brothers (or 'Tasiu', as they are more generally known in the islands) were responsible for the evangelisation of large areas of Guadalcanal, Malaita, Temotu, and other areas in the Solomons, for Big Bay and other places in Vanuatu, and the Popondetta area of Papua New Guinea.

Pileni

Pileni is a culturally important island in the Reef Islands, in the northern part of the Solomon Islands province of Temotu.

Torres Islands

Despite the fact that they belonged to a broader regional complex of human and material exchanges that extended well into present-day Temotu province (in the Solomons), the Torres Islands eventually became part of the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides in 1906, and were subsequently incorporated into the Republic of Vanuatu in 1980.


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