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Geography Of Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands Information - Country Guides

Location Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Papua New Guinea
Geographic coordinates 8 00 S, 159 00 E
Map references oceania 
Area total: 28,450 sq km
water: 910 sq km
land: 27,540 sq km
Area comparative slightly smaller than Maryland
Land boundaries 0 km
Coastline 5,313 km
Maritime claims measured from claimed archipelagic baselines continental shelf: 200 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm
Climate tropical monsoon; few extremes of temperature and weather
Terrain mostly rugged mountains with some low coral atolls
Elevation extremes lowest point: pacific ocean 0 m
highest point: mount makarakomburu 2,447 m
Natural resources fish, forests, gold, bauxite, phosphates, lead, zinc, nickel
Land use arable land: 0.64%
permanent crops: 2%
other: 97.36% (2001)
Irrigated land NA sq km
Natural hazards typhoons, but rarely destructive; geologically active region with frequent earth tremors; volcanic activity
Environment - current issues deforestation; soil erosion; many of the surrounding coral reefs are dead or dying
Environment - international agreements party to: biodiversity, climate change, climate change-kyoto protocol, desertification, environmental modification, law of the sea, marine dumping, marine life conservation, ozone layer protection, whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography note strategic location on sea routes between the South Pacific Ocean, the Solomon Sea, and the Coral Sea

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