Nalongo and Nupani is a small atoll in
Temotu Province
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, in the independent nation of
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, ''Islands of Destiny'', Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 1000 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, t ...
, in the southwestern
Pacific Ocean
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. It has a coral reef totally encircling a 6 km wide lagoon.
Nupani Island, also called Nimba, is inhabited with some 100 people, while
Nalongo has no permanent habitation.
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Polynesian outliers
Atolls of the Solomon Islands
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