Owariki or Owa Riki is an island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

 in the Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of . The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal...

; it is located in Makira-Ulawa Province

Makira-Ulawa Province

Makira-Ulawa Province is one of the provinces of the Solomon Islands. The main part of the province is Makira Island. It has a population of 31,006...

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Description

This small coral

Coral

Corals are marine animals in class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria typically living in compact colonies of many identical individual "polyps". The group includes the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton.A coral "head" is a colony of...

 island is 2.8 km long and 2 km wide. It is located off the eastern end of Makira

Makira

The island of Makira is the largest island of Makira-Ulawa Province in the Solomon Islands. The island is located east of Guadalcanal and south of Malaita. The largest and capital city is Kirakira....

 (San Cristobal) Island, separated from it by a 7.5 km wide strait, and just south of slightly larger Owaraha

Owaraha

Owaraha or Owa Raha is an island in the Solomon Islands; it is located in Makira-Ulawa Province.-Description:This relatively small coral island is 5,6 km long and 4, 5 km wide. It is located at the eastern end of Makira , separated from it by a 7,5 km wide strait, and just north of smaller Owariki...

 (Santa Ana) Island. The sound between Owaraha and Owariki is only 2.5 km wide.

The inhabitants of Owariki speak the Owa language

Owa language

The Owa language is a language of the Solomon Islands. It is part of the same dialect chain as Kahua, and shares the various alternate names of that dialect.-Description:...

. They share the same culture with the people on Owaraha and on the eastern end of Makira.

Owariki was visited,, along with neighboring Owaraha, by the Austrian

Austrians

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 anthropologist and photographer Hugo Bernatzik

Hugo Bernatzik

Hugo Adolf Bernatzik , was an Austrian anthropologist and photographer.Bernatzik was the founder of the concept of alternative anthropology.-Biography:...

in 1932. Bernatzik carefully documented daily life among the island people and published an ethnography a few years later.