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Malaita
Malaita is the largest island of the Malaita Province in Solomon Islands. South Malaita Island, also known as ''Small Malaita'' and ''Maramasike'' for Areare speakers and Malamweimwei known to more than 80% of the islanders, is the island at the southern tip of the larger island of Malaita. A tropical and mountainous island, Malaita's pristine river systems and tropical forests have not been exploited. Malaita is the most populous island of the Solomon Islands, with 140,000〔(The National Statistics Office ) gives the estimated 2007 population of the whole province, including Small Malaita and other outlying islands, as 149,180.〕 people or more than a third of the entire national population. The largest city and provincial capital is Auki, on the northwest coast and is on the northern shore of the Langa Langa Lagoon. The people of the Langa Langa Lagoon and the Lau Lagoon on the northeast coast of Malaita call themselves ''wane i asi'' ‘salt-water people’ as distinct from ''wane i tolo'' ‘bush people’ who live in the interior of the island.
==Name==
Most local names for the island are Mala, or its dialect variants Mara or Mwala. The name Malaita or Malayta appears in the logbook of the Spanish explorers who in the 16th century visited the islands, and claimed that to be the actual name. They first saw the island from Santa Isabel, where it is called Mala. One theory is that "ita" was added on, as the Bughotu word for up or east, or in this context "there."〔W.G. Ivens. ''Melanesians of the South-east Solomon Islands''. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., 1927; 22-23.〕 Bishop George Augustus Selwyn referred to it as Malanta in 1850.〔Ivens, 23.〕 Mala was the name used under British control;〔Ivens, 22.〕 now Malaita is used for official purposes. The name Big Malaita is also used to distinguish it from the smaller South Malaita Island.
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