Vila
Vila is a site at the southern end of Kolombangara in the nation of Solomon Islands, originally the location of the Vila Stanmore coconut plantation. During World War II, Japanese forces built an airstrip in order to stage aircraft from Rabaul down to Guadalcanal, and on several occasions, beginning on 24 January 1943 the US attempted to put the airstrip out of operation by bombing it.- Type: Hamlet
- Description: place on Kolombangara Island, Solomon Islands
- Also known as: “Vila, Solomon Islands”
Vila
- Categories: geographical feature and locality
- Location: South Kolombangara, Western Province, Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Oceania
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Latitude
-8.13787° or 8° 8′ 16″ southLongitude
157.14324° or 157° 8′ 36″ eastOpen location code
6R3VV46V+V7OpenStreetMap ID
node 3508073803OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletWikidata ID
Q7929970
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Swedish—“Vila” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Vila”
- Japanese: “ヴィラ (ソロモン諸島）”
- Japanese: “ビラ (ソロモン諸島)”
- Japanese: “ビラ”
- Japanese: “ビラ地区”
- Swedish: “Vila, Salomonöarna”
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