Adagege

Adagege, alternatively spelled Ada Gege or Ada-gege, is an artificial island built on the reef in the Lau Lagoon on Malaita in Solomon Islands;{{cite web|title=Historical Photographs of Malaita |publisher=University of Queensland |url=http://www.uq.edu.au/hprc/beattie-malaita |access-date=20 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522103657/http://www.uq.edu.au/hprc/beattie-malaita |archive-date=22 May 2014 }} it is located in Malaita Province. The road from Auki ends at Fouia wharf opposite the islands of Sulufou and Adaege in the Lau Lagoon.{{cite book |last1=Stanley |first1=David |title= South Pacific Handbook |year= 1999 |publisher= Moon South Pacific|isbn=978-1566911726|page= 895}}

History

Originally settled by refugees from south of the Lau Lagoon, Adagage was taken over by the inhabitants of Sulufou and was converted into a specialised island for women to give birth at, later it was ritually cleansed and turned into a village.{{cite book|title=Making Mala: Malaita in Solomon Islands, 1870s–1930s|url=https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/pacific/making-mala#pdf|first1=Clive|last1=Moore|isbn=9781760460976|page=128|doi=10.22459/MM.04.2017|publisher=ANU Press|year=2017 |doi-access=free }} During the late 19th and early 20th century Adagege was the power base of Kwaisulia, a prominent strongman in the area who held influence across northern Malaita, during which time it was fortified with barbed wire.{{cite book|url=https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft509nb347&chunk.id=d0e4925&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e4925&brand=ucpress|title=History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology|access-date=October 14, 2020|chapter=Kwaisulia as Culture Hero|isbn=9780520075238|page=176|author1=Roger Keesing|author2=James G. Carrier|year=1992|publisher=University of California Press}}

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Category:Islands of the Solomon Islands