University of Hawaii press
It is the sea-the sea is what makes Marovo different. All kinds of things can be found in the sea here to make life good and to earn some money You can go to Choiseul, Vella, Ranoga, Simbo, Kolobangara [other islands in the western Solomons] and those places-true, people there have plenty of coconut trees, but they don't have anything like our lagoon! Nothing but open sea and a few reefs along the coasts of those islands. Here in Marovo,