Honiara : Village-City of Solomon Islands.

Intro -- List of figures -- Figure 0.1 Honiara's 'worlds' in order of their social, economic, and political importance, 1940s - 2010s. -- Figure 9.1 The population of Greater Honiara: The Honiara City Council area and the adjacent peri-urban population of Guadalcanal Province, 1959-2019. -- List of maps -- Map 0.1 Solomon Islands. -- Map 0.2 Guadalcanal Province and Honiara, 2021. -- Map 0.3 Modern Solomon Islands urban centres. -- Map 1.1 Languages and dialects of Guadalcanal. -- Map 1.2 Levers' Tenaru Estate, showing the years various sections were planted and the boundaries with Ilu and Lungga estates. -- Map 1.3 1920 map showing the Tandai claim and the Occupational Lease claimed by Levers. -- Map 1.4 Levers' land claim as of 26 May 1920. -- Map 1.5 1920 map showing the boundaries of Levers' land from the east bank of the Mataniko River to the boundary with William Dumphy's Tenavatu plantation. -- Map 1.6 The area that became east Honiara, as it was when examined by the Phillips Lands Commission in Claim 17, 12 May 1922. -- Map 1.7 Map of Guadalcanal, 1930s. -- Map 2.1 The main Japanese bases in the Bismarck and Solomon archipelagos, between 1942 and 1945. -- Map 2.2 The north coast of Guadalcanal during World War II, from the Metapona River to Visale. -- Map 2.3 Iron Bottom Sound between Guadalcanal, Savo, and the Ngela (Florida) islands, showing the sites of some of the Japanese, American, and Australian ships sunk there. -- Map 2.4 The Carney and Koli airfield complex was the largest of the American airfields on Guadalcanal. -- Map 3.1 1947 map of Levers' 8,225 hectares of land, stretching from the east bank of the Mataniko River to Tenaru. -- Map 3.2 The area contested by Baranaba Hoai in 1964 on behalf of the Tandai landowners.

Map 3.3 The land of Mamara Plantation Limited, 9 March 1948, from the coast west of White River, into the headwaters, and east to Vatudaki. -- Map 4.1 Guadalcanal council wards in the early 1970s, showing details of settlements in the north-west, which were the main areas supplying Honiara's Central Market. -- Map 5.1 Honiara Town Council boundary in 1959. -- Map 5.2 Honiara's town boundary, 1976. -- Map 5.3 The west of Honiara City Council's land and adjacent customary-owned areas of Guadalcanal, 2010s. -- Map 6.1 Honiara in the 1970s. -- Map 6.2 Guadalcanal Plains east of the Honiara City Council land in the 1970s, showing the mixed usage. -- Map 7.1 The central area of Honiara in 1968, from the Masonic Lodge to the tobacco factory. -- Map 8.1 Honiara in the 1960s, showing the segregated communities. -- Map 9.1 Honiara town and boundary, 1981. -- Map 9.2 Honiara (in black) and oil palm plantations (in grey) on Guadalcanal Plains, 2009. -- Map 10.1 Settlements (THA/TOL and squatter) within or on the Honiara City Council boundaries, 2019. -- Map 10.2 A 2015 Honiara citywide structural plan showing the proposed bypass road. -- Map 10.3 A 2015 Honiara city centre structural plan. -- Map 10.4 Honiara's current and projected urban growth, 2006-25. -- Map 10.5 Greater Honiara, including the area of the Honiara City Council (in green) and Tandai and Malango wards (in red) of Guadalcanal Provincial Government. -- List of plates -- Plate 1.1 The area of Guadalcanal that became Honiara. -- Plate 1.2 A bronze bust of Spanish explorer Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira installed at the Solomon Islands National Museum in 2014. -- Plate 1.3 Point Cruz in 1944. -- Plate 1.4 The mouth of the Mataniko River, 1920s. -- Plate 1.5 Horahi village is in the centre of this 1942 photograph, in a clearing along the beach on the west side of the mouth of the Mataniko River.

Plate 1.6 Horahi village in the 1920s. -- Plate 1.7 The home of the Catholic missionary at Horahi village, 1920s. -- Plate 1.8 Horahi village in August 1942 overlaid on a modern view of Honiara. -- Plate 2.1 Coastwatcher Martin Clemens and members of the Solomon Islands Defence Force, August 1942. -- Plate 2.2 The partly completed Japanese airfield and dispersal area at Lungga, 7 July 1942, which later became Henderson Airfield. -- Plate 2.3 American troops advancing through the site of the burnt-out Horahi village on the Mataniko River, November 1942. -- Plate 2.4 American troops at the mouth of the Mataniko River in 1943. -- Plate 2.5 The Mataniko River footbridge built by the Americans in 1942. -- Plate 2.6 The Mataniko River vehicle bridge built by the Americans, 1943. -- Plate 2.7 The 11th Marines firing a 155 mm gun. -- Plate 2.8 When Solomon Islanders saw the scale of the American landing on Guadalcanal in 1942, it was almost beyond comprehension. -- Plate 2.9 The American supply base at the mouth of the Lungga River, on the edge of what is now Honiara, 1940s. -- Plate 2.10 Americans and Solomon Islanders from the Solomon Islands Defence Force on Kakabona Beach, 25 January 1943. -- Plate 2.11 Solomon Islands Labour Corps unloading fuel drums at Lungga Beach, March 1943. -- Plate 2.12 Solomon Islands Labour Corps unloading cartons of beer at Camp Guadal, 29 January 1944. -- Plate 2.13 Solomon Islands Labour Corps unwinding copper wire for the telephone system, Camp Guadal, June 1943. -- Plate 2.14 Captain William M. Quiglay, Commander of the Naval Base at Camp Guadal, 22 August 1942, driving the last spike into the 'Guadalcanal-Bougainville-Tokyo Express' railway, which was built in three days by the American Seabees.

Plate 2.15 Major J.J. Mather paying members of the Solomon Islands Labour Corps at Camp Guadal, 28 January 1942, while being filmed for US publicity. -- Plate 2.16 A US Marine wearing a Japanese sword and water bottle, and three members of the SIDF, at Camp Guadal on 28 December 1942. -- Plate 2.17 Three US Marines and a Seabee sharing a drink with members of the Solomon Islands Labour Corps at Camp Guadalcanal in August 1943. -- Plate 2.18 A US Marine and two Solomon Islanders listening to a gramophone. The man on the right is holding a Japanese bayonet. -- Plate 2.19 Solomon Islanders taking communion at Camp Guadal, Easter 1943. -- Plate 2.20 Guadalcanal women pose with a US Marines recruitment poster in 1944. Very few of the war photographs depict women. -- Plate 2.21 Unloading trucks at the lagoon at the mouth of the Lungga River. -- Plate 2.22 Fighter I Airfield in the foreground, Henderson Airfield in the middle, and Fighter II Airfield in the far distance, abutting the coast, 1943. -- Plate 2.23 One of the movie theatres at Camp Guadal during the war years. -- Plate 2.24 Jacob Vouza and members of the SIDF, 25 January 1944. -- Plate 2.25 In 1990, this statue of former policeman, Scout, and war hero Sir Jacob Vouza was added to the war memorial at Rove Police Headquarters. -- Plate 2.26 The Solomons Scouts and Coastwatchers Memorial in Commonwealth Avenue, Honiara, erected in 2011. -- Plate 3.1 The Point Cruz area of Camp Guadal in 1944. -- Plate 3.2 The main coastal highway heading towards Point Cruz, in 1944. The Americans called it the 'Burma Highway'. -- Plate 3.3 Camp Guadal in about 1945, from Lengakiki Flats to Point Cruz. -- Plate 3.4 A Queen's Birthday parade in Honiara in the late 1940s. -- Plate 3.5 The American bridge over the Lungga River on the Honiara side of Henderson Airfield in October 1945.

Plate 3.6 Quonset huts of all sizes were everywhere-the most useful remnant of the war years. -- Plate 3.7 In 1951, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia began operations in Honiara, housed in a Quonset hut. -- Plate 3.8 The BSIP Trading Corporation Limited was housed in a large Quonset hut in Mendana Avenue, 1960s. -- Plate 3.9 The staff of the BSIP Trading Corporation Limited, 1960s. -- Plate 3.10 Alan and Doreen Lindley's house in Mud Alley, 1952. -- Plate 3.11 Arnold and Mary Cowmeadow's thatched house with woven bamboo walls in the grounds of Government House, 1960s. -- Plate 3.12 The Mendana Hotel in the late 1950s. -- Plate 3.13 The Honiara Club, showing murals created by King George VI School art students in 1971. -- Plate 3.14 The Point Cruz Cinema in Mendana Avenue in the late 1950s. -- Plate 3.15 West Honiara from the bottom of Lengakiki Ridge, 1956. -- Plate 4.1 Walkabout Long Chinatown, the Viking album featuring the song of the same name by Edwin Sitori, Rone Naqu, and Jason Que. -- Plate 4.2 Aerial view of Chinatown in the 1950s. -- Plate 4.3 View down Chinatown's main street in the 1950s. -- Plate 4.4 View into Chinatown, showing the typical trade stores, in the early 1960s. -- Plate 4.5 Chinatown in the 1960s. -- Plate 4.6 The Bailey bridge over the Mataniko River, and part of Chinatown. -- Plate 4.7 Aerial view of Chinatown, 1968. -- Plate 4.8 Mataniko River and Chinatown, also showing the beginning of housing on the ridges, 1981. -- Plate 4.9 Gilbertese migrants in the 1950s. -- Plate 4.10 Honiara's Central Market was a simple affair when it began in the 1950s. -- Plate 4.11 Betel nut sellers in Honiara's Central Market, 1970s. -- Plate 4.12 The Compass Rose II carrying thousands of pineapples from Malaita to Honiara's Central Market, 1994. -- Plate 4.13 Honiara's tobacco factory, 1972 (see position on Map 7.1).

Plate 5.1 Central District Headquarters in Honiara, 1956.

Nahona`ara--means 'facing the `ara', the place where the southeast winds meet the land just west of Point Cruz. Nahona`ara became Honiara, the capital city of Solomon Islands with a population of 160,000, the only significant urban centre in a nation of 721,000 people.

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