Product Description

Folded travel map in color. Includes historical footnotes including the Solomon Islands’ role in WW II, adventures of early European explorers, and tales of castaways. The map distinguishes main roads from other types of roads and tracks. Icons locate international and domestic airports, diving, caves, shipwrecks, hospitals, beaches, accommodations. Tints of color show elevations. Inset maps of Rennell Island, the Santa Cruz Islands, Guadalcanal and Honiara. Honiara map locates places to stay, museums, banks, churches, embassies, gas stations, important buildings, places of interest, post offices, restaurants, visitors’ bureaus. Index of place names. Scale 1:900,000. Legend in English.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #583521 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Map
• 1 pages

About the Author
ITMB Publishing (International Travel Maps and Books) of Vancouver, Canada, has published detailed reference and travel maps of countries, regions, and cities around the world since 1985. The company's titles include many that are unique or the first of their kind, including the first commercially available travel map of South America.

Customer Reviews

It's a Map -- of the Solomons
And it's great that such a thing is available on Amazon. It's by no means a detailed map, however. Aside from showing where (most of) the islands are in relationship to one another and the names of various villages, well, it doesn't tell you a whole lot. The map includes a few paragraphs on it explaining a few historical significances (related to WWII), but these are kind of too sketchy to be interesting and don't really comprise the most important events that took place in the country.

I also would have liked a better inset detail of Guadalcanal and the Honiara area. Granted, there aren't a lot of roads to be drawn -- but what was there seemed minimal and certainly wouldn't help much for someone who was visiting SI.

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