Guadalcanal
Guadalcanal is one of the Solomon Islands. Honiara contains a wealth of World War II sites: most of the hills in the Honiara area were the sites of fierce battles during World War II.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Abandoned locality
- Description: island of the Solomon Islands chain in the South Pacific Ocean
- Also known as: “Đảo Guadalcanal”, “Guadacanal”, “Guadalcanar”, “Ilha de Guadalcanal”, “Isatabu”, “Isla Guadalcanal”, “Isola di Guadalcanal”, “Kvadalkanal”, “Quadalcanal”, “Sahasahakama”, “Sasacoma”, “Sasahakama”, “Исатабу”, “Остров Гуадалканал”, “איסטאבו”, “איסטבו”, “גואדלקנל”, “גוודאלקנל”, “گوادال کانال”, “وادي القنال”, “इसाताबू”, “กัวดาคาแนล”, “เกาะกวาดัลคะแนล”, “ガダルカナル”, “ガタルカナル島”, “ガダルカナル嶋”, “ガ島”, “ガ嶋”, “瓜岛”, “瓜达尔卡纳尔”, “餓島”, and “餓嶋”
Guadalcanal
- Category: island
- Location: Malango, Guadalcanal Province, Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-9.6125° or 9° 36′ 45″ south
Longitude
160.0878° or 160° 5′ 16″ east
Elevation
830 metres (2,723 feet)
Open location code
6V2293QQ+24
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Guadalcanal” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جوادالكانال”
- Arabic: “غوادالكانال”
- Azerbaijani: “Quadalkanal”
- Basque: “Guadalcanal uhartea”
- Basque: “Guadalcanal”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Гуадалканал”
- Belarusian: “Гуадалканал”
- Breton: “Guadalcanal”
- Bulgarian: “Гуадалканал”
- Catalan: “Guadalcanal”
- Catalan: “Illa de Guadalcanal”
- Cebuano: “Guadalcanal Island”
- Chinese: “瓜达尔卡纳尔岛”
- Chinese: “瓜達康納爾島”
- Chinese: “瓜達爾卡納爾島”
- Croatian: “Guadalcanal”
- Czech: “Guadalcanal”
- Danish: “Guadalcanal”
- Dutch: “Guadalcanal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جوادالكانال”
- Esperanto: “Guadalcanal”
- Estonian: “Guadalcanal”
- Estonian: “Guadalcanali saar”
- Finnish: “Guadalcanal”
- French: “Guadalcanal”
- Galician: “Guadalcanal, Illas Salomón”
- Georgian: “გუადალკანალი”
- German: “Guadalcanal”
- Greek: “Γκουανταλκανάλ”
- Hebrew: “גוודלקנל”
- Hungarian: “Guadalcanal”
- Icelandic: “Guadalcanal”
- Indonesian: “Guadalcanal”
- Indonesian: “Guadalkanal”
- Italian: “Guadalcanal”
- Japanese: “ガダルカナル島”
- Korean: “과달카날섬”
- Latvian: “Gvadalkanala”
- Lithuanian: “Gvadalkanalis”
- Lombard: “Guadalcanal”
- Macedonian: “Гвадалканал”
- Malay: “Guadalcanal”
- Marathi: “ग्वादालकॅनाल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Guadalcanal”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guadalcanal”
- Norwegian: “Guadalcanal”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Guadalcanal”
- Persian: “گوادالکانال”
- Polish: “Guadalcanal”
- Portuguese: “Guadalcanal”
- Romanian: “Guadalcanal”
- Russian: “Гуадалканал”
- Serbian: “Gvadalkanal”
- Serbian: “Гвадалканал”
- Slovak: “Guadalcanal”
- Slovenian: “Guadalcanal”
- Spanish: “Guadalcanal”
- Spanish: “Isla de Guadalcanal”
- Swedish: “Guadalcanal”
- Thai: “กวาดัลคะแนล”
- Thai: “กัวดัลคะแนล”
- Turkish: “Guadalcanal”
- Ukrainian: “Гуадалканал”
- Urdu: “گوادالکانال”
- Vietnamese: “Guadalcanal”
- Waray (Philippines): “Guadalcanal”
- Western Frisian: “Guadalcanal”
- Western Mari: “Гуадалканал”
- Wu Chinese: “瓜達爾卡納爾島”
- Yue Chinese: “瓜達卡納島”
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