Tahua
{{Short description|Island in Solomon Islands}}
Tahua is one of the Duff Islands, of Temotu Province, in the independent nation of Solomon Islands. The estimated terrain elevation above sea level is some 23 metres.{{cite web |title=Tahua |url=http://sb.geoview.info/tahua,2103080 |publisher=Geoview |access-date=30 July 2018}}{{cite web |title=Tahua |url=https://mapcarta.com/16551838 |publisher=Mapcarta |access-date=30 July 2018}}{{cite web |title=Traveling Luck for Tahua |url=http://travelingluck.com/Oceania/Solomon+Islands/Solomon+Islands+(general)/_2103080_Tahua.html |publisher=Traveling Luck |access-date=30 July 2018}} The island is inhabited.
History
The artificial island of Tahua already existed when Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernández de Quirós discovered the Duff Islands on 8 April 1606. In the 1930s, Tahua Island measured only 100 by 150 metres, and walls divided the single village there. During the 1950s, the entire Duff Islands population lived on Tahua. The local people physically resemble Melanesians and speak a language called Pileni, that belongs to the Samoic branch of the Polynesian languages.{{cite web |title=Duff Islands - John Seach |url=http://www.volcanolive.com/duff.html |publisher=Volcano Live |access-date=30 July 2018}}{{cite web |title=Duff Islands |url=http://www.solomonencyclopaedia.net/biogs/E000093b.htm |website=Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia 1893-1978 |access-date=30 July 2018}} The way of life is traditional by subsistence farming and fishing.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080120072207/http://solomonislands.com.sb/duffislands.html Article on Duff islands]
- [https://www.academia.edu/6931708/The_Archaeology_of_Taumako_A_Polynesian_outlier_in_the_Eastern_Solomon_Islands The Archaeology of Taumako: A Polynesian Outlier in the Eastern Solomon Islands]
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