Tulagi

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Tulagi
Rainbow over Tulagi
Rainbow over Tulagi
Waters Pacific Ocean
Archipelago Nggela
Geographical location 9 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  S , 160 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 9 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  S , 160 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  E
Tulagi (Solomon Islands)
Tulagi
length 5.5 km
width 1 km
surface 2.08 km²
Highest elevation 74  m
Residents 1251 (2009)
601 inhabitants / km²
main place Tulagi
Location from Tulaghi to Nggela Sule Island (Florida Island)
Location from Tulaghi to Nggela Sule Island (Florida Island)

Tulagi (old spelling: Tulaghi ) is a city on the island of the same name in the island republic of Solomon Islands , and the capital of the Central Province .

geography

Tulagi is just 170 meters off the south coast of the large neighboring island of Nggela Sule and around 30 kilometers north of the island of Guadalcanal on Ironbottom Sound . The island is 5.5 km long and has 1,251 inhabitants.

history

Tulagi was the capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1896 to 1942 .

On May 3, 1942, the Japanese army occupied Tulagi Island during the Pacific War in order to establish an air base here. The next day, the Japanese ships in port were attacked by fighter jets belonging to the American aircraft carrier USS Yorktown . (The island is therefore popular with wreck divers .) This was one of the preludes to the following carrier battle in the Coral Sea .

The US troops finally landed on August 7, 1942 as part of the Battle of Guadalcanal on Tulagi and the other Florida Islands and took the island the following day. The city was destroyed by the fighting and the Protectorate administration temporarily moved to Auki on Malaita . In 1945 it was decided not to rebuild Tulagi as the capital, but to relocate it to Honiara , which emerged from the large US military base on Guadalcanal .

The Beijing-based Sam Group , a state-affiliated Chinese company, leased part of the island by contract with the provincial government dated September 22, 2019. Five days earlier, the Solomon Islands had severed ties with Taiwan. China had, according to the New York Times , prepared for this expansion of its influence in the Pacific region by giving Solomon Islands politicians expensive gifts for years.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Solomon Islands. In: citypopulation.de. Accessed November 24, 2015 (as of 2009).
  2. ↑ https://law.uq.edu.au/files/27216/UQChapter3British%20Solomon%20Islands%20Protectorate.pdf
  3. ↑ Solomons government says China's island lease “unlawful”. In: The Straits Times , October 25, 2019, accessed January 13, 2020.
  4. ↑ Kate Lyons: China extends influence in Pacific as Solomon Islands break with Taiwan . In: The Guardian , September 16, 2019, accessed January 13, 2020.
  5. ↑ Outcry in the Solomon Islands: China's Secret Plan for Leased Island orf.at, October 17, 2019, accessed on January 13, 2020.

Web links

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