Solomon Islands : General Info

Time Zone

UTC +11

Money

Solomon Island dollar (SI$) of 100 cents.

Diplomatic Missions

In Honiara:

Australia: PO Box 589. Tel. 21561.

New Zealand: Mendana Avenue. Tel. 21502.

PNG: PO Box 1109 Tel 20561, Fax 20562

United Kingdom: Telekom House, Mendana Avenue. Tel.(677) 21705, (677) 21706, Fax.(677) 21549, bhc@solomon.com.sb

United States: PO Box 561. Tel. 20725.

Emergencies

Dial 11.

Publications

IMRAY AND ADLARD COLES PILOT BOOKS are available at a discounted price for Noonsite.com users via World Cruising Club

SOLOMON ISLANDS CRUISING GUIDE by Dirk Sieling

THE PACIFIC CROSSING GUIDE by Michael Pocock

SOUTH PACIFIC ANCHORAGES by Warwick Clay

LANDFALLS OF PARADISE by Earl Hinz

SOUTH PACIFIC HANDBOOK by David Stanley :http://www.southpacific.org/index.html#top

Links

Solomon Islands Visitors Bureau

Tourism Council of the South Pacific

Ngarando Faraway Resort, Pigeon Island

Detailed Logs of Countries Little Visited Jack van Ommen of SV "FLEETWOOD" has kept fairly detailed logs of the countries he has visited since leaving the West Coast of the USA in 2005, including Vanuatu, Solomons, Papau New Guinea, Palau, Vietnam, Sulawesi, Seychelles and Madagascar. The one on Vietnam in 2006 has lots of information that is still hard to obtain elsewhere.

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