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Mount Popomanaseu. Der Popomanaseu ist der höchste Berg der Salomonen. Der auf Guadalcanal gelegene Berg erreicht eine Höhe von 2335 Metern und übertrifft dadurch den westlich gelegenen Mount Makarakomburu um etwa 20 Meter.
Mount Popomanaseu is a volcanic mountain and the highest mountain in the Solomon Islands. It is located on Guadalcanal east of Mount Makarakomburu. At 2,335 metres (7,661 ft), it is the highest peak in the insular South Pacific, excluding New Guinea and its satellite islands.
Der Popomanaseu ist der höchste Berg der Salomonen. Der auf Guadalcanal gelegene Berg erreicht eine Höhe von 2335 Metern und übertrifft dadurch den westlich gelegenen Mount Makarakomburu um etwa 20 Meter.
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Guadalcanal is the largest island in Solomon Islands, with a total land area of 5,302 km2 (2,047 sq mi), and has a population of 155,605 people, making it the second-most populous island in the country after Malaita. Mount Popomanaseuis the island's highest point and the highest in Solomon Islands, with an elevation of 7,661 ft (2,335 m) above sea ...
Early history
The island has been settled since at least 4500–2500 BC based on archaeological finds at Poha Cave and Vatuluma Posovi. During the period 1200-800 BC, Austronesian Lapitapeoples settled the islands. A Spanish expedition from Peru in 1568 under the command of Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira were the first Europeans to see the island. Mendaña's subordinate, Pedro de Ortega Valencia, named the island after his home town Guadalcanal in Andalusia, Spain.In the years that followed the discovery, the isl...
Second World War
In the months following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the Japanese drove the Americans out of the Philippines, the British out of British Malaya, and the Dutch out of the East Indies. The Japanese then began to expand into the western Pacific, occupying many islands in an attempt to build a defensive ring around their conquests and threaten the lines of communication from the United States to Australia and New Zealand. The Japanese reached Guadalcanal in May 1942. When an Ameri...
Postwar years
Immediately after the Second World War, the capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate was moved to Honiara on Guadalcanal from its previous location at Tulagi in the Florida Islands. In 1952, the high commissioner for the Western Pacific moved from Fiji to Honiara, and the post was combined with that of the governor of the Solomon Islands. The airfield which was the cause of the fighting in 1942, and which became well known as Henderson Field, is now the international airportfor the...
About 25 km (15 mi) from Honiara to the west, Vilu War Museum houses an outdoor collection of remains of various parts of military equipment and of several aircraft. Several memorials for the American, Australian, Fijian, New Zealand, and Japanese soldiers who died were erected, as well.
The island hosts a native marsupial known as the phalanger or grey cuscus, Phalanger orientalis.The only other mammals are bats and rodents. Many species of colourful parrots are found there, and estuarine crocodiles inhabit the island's shores. In recent times, these crocodiles have been found only on the Weather Coast in the south of the island, ...
Hadden, Robert Lee. 2007. "The Geology of Guadalcanal: a Selected Bibliography of the Geology, Natural History, and the History of Guadalcanal."by Robert Lee Hadden. Alexandria, VA: Topographic Eng...Hakim, Joy (1995). A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509514-2.Mount Popomanaseu | mountain, Solomon Islands | Britannica. mountain, Solomon Islands. Also known as: Mount Makarakombou, Mount Makarakomburu. Learn about this topic in these articles: physiography. In Guadalcanal Island. (Kavo Range) that culminates in Mount Popomanaseu (7,644 feet [2,330 metres]), the highest point in the country.
18. Okt. 2012 · 18 October 2012. Climbing Mt Popomanaseu. In early October, Matt, Ben and Dave from the Australian High Commission in Honiara set out to climb the highest mountain in the Solomon Islands, Mt Popamanaseu. At 2335m, the dome shaped summit of Mt Popamanaseu rarely pokes its head out of the clouds that seem almost omnipresent in the ranges of ...
Auf dieser befindet sich der Mount Popomanaseu, mit einer Höhe von 2335 m. [1] Die nördlichen Salomon-Inseln, insbesondere die Inseln Bougainville und Buka, gehören heute politisch zu Papua-Neuguinea. Der restlichen Inseln gehören zum seit 1978 selbständigen Inselstaat Salomonen . Geschichte.
