Solnohu

Solnohu is the fourth largest island in the Rotuma Group of sixteen volcanic islands located 646 kilometres (401 mi) north of Fiji. It has an area of 9.6 hectares and lies approximately 70 meters away from the southern district of Juju on the main island of Rotuma, but it is still within the fringing reef. The island is also one of two outliers to the south of Rotuma, the other being Solkope.

The climate in the area is temperate. The average annual temperature is 20 °C. The warmest month is March, when the average temperature is 26 °C, and the coldest is December, with 0 °C.{{cite web |title=NASA Earth Observations: Dataset Index |url=http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php |website=NASA.gov |publisher=NASA/NEO |access-date=30 January 2016 |archive-date=1 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601165802/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php |url-status=live }} The average annual rainfall is 3,420 millimeters. The wettest month is February, with an average of 504 mm of precipitation, and the driest is September, with 195 mm of precipitation.{{cite web |title=NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month – TRMM, 1998–2016) |url=http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=TRMM_3B43M&year=2014 |website=NASA.gov |publisher=NASA/NEO/Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) |access-date=30 January 2016 |date=December 2014 |archive-date=11 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511075534/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=TRMM_3B43M |url-status=live }}

Some of the flora common to the island are the Epipremnum pinnatum, a species of flowering plant in the Araceae family{{cite web |title=Consortium of Pacific Herbaria – Specimen Records – University of South Pacific (Fiji) (SUVA) |url=https://serv.biokic.asu.edu/pacific/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=364630&clid=0 |website=ASU.edu |publisher=Arizona State University |access-date=4 April 2021 |date=5 November 1991 |archive-date=19 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419230157/https://serv.biokic.asu.edu/pacific/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=364630&clid=0 |url-status=live }} and the Merremia peltata, a species of flowering vine in the Convolvulaceae family.{{cite web |title=Merremia peltata (Convolvulaceae) – herbarium voucher specimen from Rotuma Island (Fiji Islands/Fiji/Pacific region) |url=http://www.hear.org/vouchers/pier/bish0000612928.htm |website=HEAR.org |publisher=Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR) |access-date=4 April 2021 |date=1 October 2003 |archive-date=26 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726235115/http://www.hear.org/vouchers/pier/bish0000612928.htm |url-status=live }}

Solnohu is also part of the Rotuma Important Bird Area (IBA) which consists of the main island of Rotuma and associated small satellite islets.{{cite web |title=Important Bird Areas factsheet: Rotuma |url=http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/rotuma-iba-fiji |website=BirdLife.org |publisher=BirdLife International |access-date=7 April 2021 |date=2018 |archive-date=26 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626192346/http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/rotuma-iba-fiji |url-status=live }}

One of the island's known legends is that of "The turtle of Sol Onau" (or Sol Onah, both being alternative spellings of Sol Nohu).{{cite web |title=From J. Stanley Gardiner (1898), "The Natives of Rotuma," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27:503-518 – XXV. LEGENDS (f) |url=http://www.hawaii.edu/oceanic/rotuma/os/Gardiner/GdrLegends.html |website=Hawaii.edu |publisher=University of Hawaiʻi |access-date=10 April 2021 |archive-date=4 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704132130/http://www.hawaii.edu/oceanic/rotuma/os/Gardiner/GdrLegends.html |url-status=live }} The legend tells of two girls who slipped from a flat rock platform at the top of the island and fell to the sea. The girls did not die but were instead changed into two immortal sea turtles, one red and one white. They are said to live in the coral under the rock, and can be called up at any time by singing an incantation.

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• [http://wikimapia.org/1571617/Solnohu-Island Solnohu Island] at Wikimapia
• [https://www.geonames.org/2198311/solnohu-island.html Solnohu Island] at GeoNames
• [https://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-1758336&fid=1805&c=fiji Solnohu Island] at Geographic.org (with data from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency)
• [https://www.weatherhq.co.uk/solnohu-island Solnohu Island] at WeatherHQ

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