Marovo lagoon

Coordinates: 8 ° 29 ′  S , 158 ° 4 ′  E

View of parts of the Marovo lagoon (2008)

The Marovo Lagoon is a saltwater lagoon that belongs to the Solomonic New Georgia Archipelago and is located north of the island of Vangunu . The lagoon is seven hundred square kilometers and with a length of one hundred and fifty kilometers is the largest saltwater lagoon in the world. It is protected by a double barrier reef . In addition, the lagoon has a high diversity of corals and fish, making it a popular destination for divers .

The lagoon is part of the Marovo-Tetepare complex , which is on the tentative list for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List . Sightings of the Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) have been confirmed in the lagoon.

Some of the islands are inhabited. A total of about eleven thousand people live in over fifty places. They speak the Marovo language and have a subsistence economy in which fishing plays a special role.

literature

• Edvard Hviding: Guardians of Marovo Lagoon: Practice, Place, and Politics in Maritime Melanesia . In: Pacific Islands Monograph Series . No. 14 . University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 1996, ISBN 0-8248-1664-1 (English, 473 pages).
• Graham Baines, Edvard Hviding: Traditional Environmental Knowledge from the Marovo Area of ​​the Solomon Islands . In: Martha Johnson (Ed.): Lore: Capturing Traditional Environmental Knowledge . Diane Publishing, Darby (Pennsylvania) 1998, ISBN 0-88936-644-6 , pp. 91-110 (English, 190 pages).

Web links

Commons : Marovo Lagoon  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marovo Lagoon on the Solomon Islands. In: Frank's Travelbox. Franks Online & Verlags GmbH, accessed on September 18, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Marovo - Tetepare Complex. In: unesco.org. UNESCO , accessed on September 18, 2017 . 
3. ^ Review of Significant Trade: Species selected by the CITES Animals Committee following CoP14 and retained in the review following AC25 . In: CITES Project No. S-380 . UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Center , Cambridge 2012, Tursiops aduncus Ehrenberg, 1833: Solomon Islands, p. 2–10 (English, unep-wcmc.org [PDF; 1,2 MB ; accessed on September 18, 2017]). Review of Significant Trade: Species selected by the CITES Animals Committee following CoP14 and retained in the review following AC25 ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Robert E. Johannes, Edvard Hviding: Traditional knowledge possessed by the fishers of Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands, concerning fish aggregating behavior . In: Kenneth Ruddle (Ed.): Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin . No. 12 . Pacific Community , Nouméa (New Caledonia) December 2000, pp. 22–29 (English, uib.no [PDF; 384 kB ; accessed on September 18, 2017]). Traditional knowledge possessed by the fishers of Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands, concerning fish aggregating behavior ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.