Bellona Island

Bellona Island

Bellona Island is an island of the Rennell and Bellona Province, Solomon Islands.Its length is about 10 km and its average width 2.5 km. Its area is about 17 km². It is almost totally surrounded by 30-70 m high cliffs, comprised primarily of raised coral limestone.

Bellona Island is densely populated and its interior is lush and fertile. There are ten villages:
*Matahenua/Matamoana (west)
*Hongaubea
*Tongomainge
*Ngotokanaba
*Pauta
*Ngongona
*Ghongau
*Ahenoa
*Matangi
*NukuTonga (East)

Bellona Island is, like Rennell Island, a Polynesian-inhabited island within the Solomons, where most of the islands are primarily Melanesian with a few Micronesian island provinces. It is thus counted among the Polynesian outliers.

On the western end of the island there are sacred stones, at a place called Matahenua.

This island was named at the beginning of the 19th century after Capt. Edward Gardner's ship "Bellona". However, its original name is Mu Ngiki.

ee Also

* [http://members.shaw.ca/Southpacificphotos/bellona.htm pictures]
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294(197806)2%3A80%3A2%3C451%3ASOBI(A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H Cultural Ecology]
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294(196802)2%3A70%3A1%3C150%3ATROBIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H Beliefs and Rites of Pre-Christian Bellona]
* [http://www.commerce.gov.sb/Gallery/RenBell_images/bellona%20web%20map.jpgMap of Bellona Island]

Literature

*Subsistence on Bellona Island (Mungiki): A Study of the Cultural Ecology of a Polynesian Outlier in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate by Sofus Christiansen. Publisher: Aarhus University Press, Pub. Date: January 1975, ISBN-13: 9788748000902


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