North Solomons
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North Solomons can refer to three overlapping sets of Melanesian islands in the Western Pacific:
- North Solomon IslandsNorth Solomon IslandsThe Northern Solomons were the more northerly group of islands in the Solomon Islands archipelago over which Germany declared a protectorate in 1885. Initially the German protectorate included Choiseul, Santa Isabel, the Shortlands and Ontong Java Islands, but in 1900 these islands were transferred...
refers to the former colony of the German Solomon Islands, mostly in the present republic of the Solomon Islands - North Solomons Province, also known as Bougainville after its largest island, is the northwestern part (further mainly comprising Buka IslandBuka IslandBuka Island is the second largest island in the Papua New Guinean province of Bougainville.- History :Buka was first occupied by humans in paleolithic times, some 30,000 years ago...
) of the above, that was not transferred in 1899 to the British Solomon Islands, and is now a province of Papua New GuineaPapua New GuineaPapua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands... - The Republic of North Solomons in part of the above, which unilaterally declared its independence but was reabsorbed into Papua New Guinea