03.05.2008, 20:20
A note I received in answer to the Loabinauri question:
We got your inquiry from our director who was asked by someone else in Wycliffe. He had checked with the Solomon Islands Ministry of Lands but they said they were only aware of an island called Lola in the VonaVona lagoon. Our family actually has visited the resort on Lola, so when I was at Lambeti, the government station at the other end of the airstrip, I asked a couple of older men who run a charter boat service from here to Gizo if they knew of another name for Lola. They said they thought it had more of a name but couldn't quite remember what it was. Lolabinauri sounded right.
That is very possible because it looks like a word from the Roviana language and grammar.
As you know, this area is steeped in World War II history. When we first arrived we talked to a couple of the men who actually were part of the rescue of JFK. There are Japanese caves and guns and the whole area is covered in coral made by the Americans as places to park the planes once they had gained control of the airstrip.
We got your inquiry from our director who was asked by someone else in Wycliffe. He had checked with the Solomon Islands Ministry of Lands but they said they were only aware of an island called Lola in the VonaVona lagoon. Our family actually has visited the resort on Lola, so when I was at Lambeti, the government station at the other end of the airstrip, I asked a couple of older men who run a charter boat service from here to Gizo if they knew of another name for Lola. They said they thought it had more of a name but couldn't quite remember what it was. Lolabinauri sounded right.
That is very possible because it looks like a word from the Roviana language and grammar.
As you know, this area is steeped in World War II history. When we first arrived we talked to a couple of the men who actually were part of the rescue of JFK. There are Japanese caves and guns and the whole area is covered in coral made by the Americans as places to park the planes once they had gained control of the airstrip.