Simbo
Sign in to saveSimbo is an island in Western Province, Solomon Islands. It was known to early Europeans as Eddystone Island. The islanders have their unique language spoken nowhere else.
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Vinony's link graph records 168 inbound references to Simbo, and connects out to World War I, Solomon Islands and island.
The entry is geolocated on the map in mountain, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Islands of the Solomon Islands and Western Province (Solomon Islands).
Vinony links it to 13 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Simbo
- Mountain.photo
- NewGeorgiaGroupCloseup.png
- Mountain.photo_caption
- New Georgia Islands; Simbo at left
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 335
- Mountain.location
- New Georgia Islands, Solomon Islands
- Mountain.type
- Stratovolcanoes
- Mountain.volcanic_arc
- Solomon Islands
- Mountain.last_eruption
- 1910 ± 10 years
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- New Georgia Islands
- Country
- Solomon Islands
- Located in
- Western Province
- Area
- 13
- Elevation
- 335
- Body of water
- Solomon Sea
- Significant event
- earthquake
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Geography
- 2007 Earthquake and Tsunami
- In popular culture
- References
Simbo is an island in Western Province, Solomon Islands. It was known to early Europeans as Eddystone Island. The islanders have their unique language spoken nowhere else.
==Geography== Simbo is actually two main islands, one small island called Nusa Simbo separated by a saltwater lagoon from a larger one. Collectively the islands are known to the local people as Mandegugusu, while in the rest of the Solomons the islands are referred to as Simbo. Simbo has an active volcano called Ove as well several saltwater lagoons and a freshwater lake.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Simbo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations