SYDNEY: Workers at a school in Solomon Islands discovered a buried stockpile of World War II munitions as they ... Honiara in 2020 while working to map old weapons caches around the country.

In waters across the Pacific, an untold amount of black, toxic oil is contained within the corroding wrecks of World War II ships. And it’s leaking into the ocean. Note: This story is not ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A British NGO with an ambitious plan to rid Solomon Islands of unexploded bombs from World War Two ...

The last time most Americans paid attention to the Solomon Islands was in the ... only as small dots on most maps . . . they cover a large strategic area.” That large strategic area, key to fighting ...

Here are five maps that explain why. The Solomon Islands is a small country ... and its allies have had over the Pacific Islands since the end of WWII. Hence the full on, rapid, well-funded ...

could help the Chinese Navy block shipping routes that played a vital role in World War II. By Damien Cave SYDNEY, Australia — A leaked document has revealed that China and the Solomon Islands ...

All that changed with the coming of World War II. The population on Solomons ... Marines trained at Solomons Island hit the beaches at the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Theater of operations.

Source: RSIPF An Australian man and a British man working to identify unexploded World War II bombs in the Solomon Islands have been ... funded project that maps unexploded bomb sites for later ...

Australia — An Australian and a Briton working to map a deadly legacy of unexploded munitions from World War II have been killed in the South Pacific nation of the Solomon Islands after a bomb ...

For readers who may be unfamiliar, what strategic role did the Solomon Islands play in World War II? Immediately following ... to wandering without a map, China’s governance logic is lost ...

More Americans came into contact with maps during World War II than in any previous moment ... His startling views of Japan from Alaska and the Solomon Islands brought home the proximity of ...

Having written so much recently about World War II, and knowing there is yet another ... Second, one of the places we visited, Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, took a tough hit this week ...