Qualla: Choiseul Province https://qualla.com/choiseul-province en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/z/8/choiseul-province-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Choiseul Province https://qualla.com/choiseul-province Choiseul Province: Introduction https://qualla.com/choiseul-province/ Photo credit Juergen Krause, Public domain. The capital of Choiseul Province fits on an island you could walk across in twenty minutes. Taro Island is one and a half square kilometers - smaller than many city parks - and yet it holds the provincial hospital, the assembly hall, the wharf, the airstrip, the premier's office, the only EFTPOS machine that was ever briefly installed in the province, and the first generator that electrified any of it, which did not arrive until 2011. A province of roughly 37,000 people is administered from this speck of coral. Almost everything that matters to the province's formal government happens here. And almost nothing else does.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/z/8/choiseul-province-wp/rqz8-choiseul-province-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Choiseul Province: A Young Province https://qualla.com/choiseul-province/ Photo credit Juergen Krause, Public domain. Choiseul Province is new as Solomon Islands provinces go. Until 25 February 1992 it was part of Western Province, and local leaders had argued for years that a population spread across the islands of Choiseul (Lauru), Wagina, Rob Roy, and a scattering of smaller offshore bodies n...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/z/8/choiseul-province-wp/rqz8-choiseul-province-a-young-province.mp3 0:06 2 full Choiseul Province: The Islands Themselves https://qualla.com/choiseul-province/ Photo credit Juergen Krause, Public domain. Choiseul Island, which the Lauru people call Lauru, is the largest by an order of magnitude - 2,971 square kilometers of mountain, forest, and reef. Wagina, 243 square kilometers, lies at the southern end of the province. Rob Roy, 200 square kilometers, sits between them. Then co...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/z/8/choiseul-province-wp/rqz8-choiseul-province-the-islands-themselves.mp3 0:06 3 full Choiseul Province: Sasamungga and the Peace https://qualla.com/choiseul-province/ Photo credit Juergen Krause, Public domain. The twentieth century came to Choiseul in the form of missionaries and logging ships, but it did not erase what came before. In 1916 a series of brutal inter-tribal feuds swept the island, the kind of conflict with deep roots in questions of land and honor and old grievances. Fiv...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/z/8/choiseul-province-wp/rqz8-choiseul-province-sasamungga-and-the-peace.mp3 0:06 4 full Choiseul Province: Taro Island, Slowly Built https://qualla.com/choiseul-province/ Photo credit Juergen Krause, Public domain. To understand Choiseul Province, picture Taro Island in 2010 and then in 2012, and note everything that changed in between. In 2010 there was no provincial assembly hall of the modern kind, no concrete wharf, no airport terminal, no generator providing consistent light, no EFTPOS...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/z/8/choiseul-province-wp/rqz8-choiseul-province-taro-island-slowly-built.mp3 0:06 5 full Choiseul Province: Logging, Mining, and What Comes Next https://qualla.com/choiseul-province/ Photo credit Juergen Krause, Public domain. Eagon Resource Company landed at Moli in 1989 and became the first commercial logger on Choiseul. Since then, logging has continued across much of the province, and the forest Hugo Bernatzik photographed in 1932 is no longer the forest the grandchildren see. A nickel mine was pro...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/z/8/choiseul-province-wp/rqz8-choiseul-province-logging-mining-and-what-comes-next.mp3 0:06 6 full