Taro Island is a small

island An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been ...

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 ...

with 507 inhabitants. It is the capital of

Choiseul Province Choiseul Province is one of the nine provinces of Solomon Islands. It lies southeast of Bougainville (part of Papua New Guinea), west of Santa Isabel Island, and north of Vella Lavella, Kolombangara & New Georgia. It has a population of 36 ...

and is located in Choiseul Bay off the northwest coast. Taro Island is home to the Choiseul Bay Airport, served by

Solomon Airlines Solomon Airlines is the flag carrier of Solomon Islands, based in Honiara. History Solomon Airlines was established in 1962 as a charter airline by Laurie Crowley. Crowley had a charter operation in Papua New Guinea with occasional charter fl ...

with flights to Gizo and other destinations. In September 2012, groundbreaking for the construction of a police housing project began. The project will be supervised by the

police board, and will strengthen police presence on the island. The island is vulnerable to

sea level rise The sea level has been rising from the end of the last ice age, which was around 20,000 years ago. Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rose by , with an increase of per year since the 1970s. This was faster than the sea level had e ...

. In 2016, John A. Church, Colin Woodroffe, and other Australian researchers from

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predicted that Taro Island would become the first provincial capital globally to relocate residents and services due to the threat of sea level rise.

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Populated places in the Solomon Islands Islands of the Solomon Islands {{SolomonIslands-geo-stub