Pt1420 Unit 4 Assignment

1. Name(s) of nation, major islands/island groups, capital - indigenous as well as colonial names.

Major Islands: Choisuel, Guadacanal, Malaita, Makira, New Georgia and Santa Isabel
Capital: Honiara on the Guadacanal Island
2. Location and size (land and ocean). Include link to one or more good map(s). total: 28,896 sq km country comparison to the world: 144 land: 27,986 sq km water: 910 sq km
Location: 8 00 S, 159 00 E

3. Population (size and composition - ethnic groups and their sizes - relative, if you prefer). Include information about the native population living elsewhere – for Hawai’i for instance that could be: “There are roughly 200,000 Kānaka Maoli or Native Hawaiians living in Hawai’i. Another 200,000 live outside of Hawai’i, primarily in US west coast states” (you can be more precise, if you want to).
Environment (atoll, high volcanic islands, etc), resources (minerals, tropical hardwood timber, fisheries, etc.), and economy today (subsistence agriculture, leased fishery, plantation economy, export, trade, etc.)
Terrain is mostly rugged mountains with low coral atolls
Resources: fish, forests, gold, bauxite, phosphates, lead, zinc, nickel
Agriculture products: cocoa, coconuts, palm kernels, rice, potatoes, vegetables, fruit; cattle, pigs; fish; timber
Industries: fish (tuna), mining, timber
5. Current constitutional arrangement and status (status could be: independent, territory of xx,