query: instance_of isabel province
supports: Papua New Guinea (PNG  Hiri Motu: "Papua Niu Gini"), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua. Isabel Province ( also spelled Ysabel ) is one of the provinces of the Solomon Islands . It has a population of around 30,000 ( 2004 ) . The capital is Buala on Santa Isabel Island . Santa Isabel is the longest Island in the Solomon Islands , South Pacific . The first European contact to the Solomon Islands was made by Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira in 1568 , who gave them their name . The highest point there is Mount Kubonitu , 1120 meters ( 3675 feet ) . River Marutho runs down that mountain into the ocean at Hofi . Almost all the rivers or streams run down that center point except for those at the other tip of the Island , Katova side . Isabel Province is long but narrow . Estimated population in 2004 was 30 000 . We do have lots of space for more people to come , that is , in comparative to the other provinces . It is filled with nice and friendly people . It is also the least visited province by tourists and that 's because it lacks proper housing , transport , and so on . Buala is the provincial capital , Allardyce and Kamaosi ( Duddley Tuti ) are the two main highschools in the province , although more are currently being planned and built . Kia village is highly regarded as a good place to visit . An airstrip is located in Fera , which is the landing point for the Sol - Air service to Isabel . It is a 15 - minute boat ride from Buala . Banking is available at the National Bank of Solomon Islands ( NBSI ) in the province , but visitors are advised to exchange their currency while in Honiara , the capital of the Solomon Islands . Malaria is a problem on the island , but it can be prevented by using lotion or sleeping inside mosquito nets and wearing long sleeves in the evenings . Clinics are available but only for basic things . Most areas have a `` Rest House '' , a house where guests can seek accommodation for the night or two , but many residents are willing to take in visitors for the night . Solomon Islands is a sovereign country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania lying to the east of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu and covering a land area of . The country's capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal. The country takes its name from the Solomon Islands archipelago, which is a collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the North Solomon Islands (part of Papua New Guinea), but excludes outlying islands, such as Rennell and Bellona, and the Santa Cruz Islands. Vanuatu (or ; Bislama ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (Bislama: "Ripablik blong Vanuatu"), is a Pacific island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast of the Solomon Islands, and west of Fiji. Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania (and occasionally Australasia) extending from the western end of the Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji. Buala is a town in the Solomon Islands located on Santa Isabel Island (the longest of the Solomon Islands). Buala consists of Jejevo station and Buala Village. Buala is located on a side of a hill so there is no place for the town to expand, new feeder roads have been continuously developed to the east and western ends of the township. One of these roads reached as far as Hovokiolo village in the west Maringe district. Kubolota, Tithiro, and Maglau are villages close to this small town. Higher up inland, are Tirotogna, Bara, Gurena and Kolokofa. People from these villages also frequent Buala town. The highest point, Mt Kubonitu, can be reached with the help of some tour guide from Tirotogna and Bara village. This peak is close to these two villages. Buala is small and is very limited with things you can do. There is a hospital in the area, but more serious cases are usually flown to Honiara. There is a branch of NBSI bank, now called Bank of South Pacific located in the area where you can do your banking. Again, it is only limited to small amounts since its small. You are better of to convert any foreign currency while in Honiara. Honiara International Airport , formerly known as Henderson Field, is an airport located on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands. It is the only international airport in the Solomon Islands and is located from the capital Honiara. The Santa Cruz Islands are a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. They lie approximately 250 miles (400 km) to the southeast of the Solomon Islands Chain. The Santa Cruz Islands lie just north of the archipelago of Vanuatu, and are considered part of the Vanuatu rain forests ecoregion. Honiara is the capital city of Solomon Islands, administered as a provincial town on the northwestern coast of Guadalcanal. it had a population of 84,520 people. The city is served by Honiara International Airport and the sea port of Point Cruz, and lies along the Kukum Highway. Santa Isabel Island (also known as Isabel and Ysabel) is the longest in the Solomon Islands, the third largest in terms of surface area, and the largest in the group of islands in Isabel Province. Guadalcanal (indigenous name: "Isatabu") is the principal island in Guadalcanal Province of the nation of Solomon Islands in the south-western Pacific, northeast of Australia. Its European discovery was under the Spanish expedition of Álvaro de Mendaña in 1568. The name comes from Guadalcanal, a village in the province of Seville, in Andalusia, Spain, birthplace of Pedro de Ortega Valencia, a member of Mendaña's expedition. An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands. The word "archipelago" is derived from the Greek "-  arkhi-" ("chief") and "  pélagos" ("sea") through the Italian "arcipelago". In Italian, possibly following a tradition of antiquity, the Archipelago (from medieval Greek "*" and Latin "archipelagus") was the proper name for the Aegean Sea and, later, usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands (since the sea is remarkable for its large number of islands). It is now used to refer to any island group or, sometimes, to a sea containing a small number of scattered islands. The Northern Solomons were the more northerly group of islands in the Solomon Islands archipelago over which Germany declared a protectorate in 1885. Initially the German Solomon Islands Protectorate included Choiseul, Santa Isabel, the Shortlands and Ontong Java Islands, but in 1900 these islands were transferred to the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. The largest of the Solomon Islands, Bougainville, continued under German administration until World War I when it fell to Australia, and after the war, it formally passed to Australian jurisdiction under a League of Nations mandate. 
  Today, the original North Solomon Islands are split between the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea and the successor state of the British Solomon Islands which was officially renamed from "the British Solomon Islands Protectorate" to "Solomon Islands" in 1975 prior to becoming an independent, sovereign state in 1976.
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answer: province of the solomon islands