List of massacres in the Solomon Islands explained

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in the Solomon Islands archipelago prior to the formation of the nation state of Solomon Islands (numbers may be approximate):

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Notes
Lavinia massacre	1872	Nggela Islands	6	Death of the crew of the trading schooner Lavinia while collecting bêche-de-mer.^[1]
Sandfly Passage incident	October 1880	Nggela Islands	4	Death of Lieutenant Bower, commander of HMS Sandfly, and 3 crewmen.^[2] ^[3] ^[4]
Young Dick massacre	20 May 1886	Malaita	12	Death of about 6 crewman and 6 Malaitans on the schooner Young Dick while on a blackbirding voyage.^[5] ^[6]
Albatros massacre	10 August 1896	Guadalcanal	5	Massacre of Baron von Norbeck, geologist and director of the Imperial and Royal Geological Society of Vienna and 4 crewman of the Albatros, killed while climbing Mount Lammas.^[7]
Malaita massacre	October 3, 1927October 12, 1927	Malaita	15 Europeans40-200 Kwaio	Death of William R. Bell, the District Officer of Malaita, his assistant Lilley, and another thirteen of his deputies while collecting tax.^[8] About sixty people were shot in the punitive expedition; about 200 men were taken to jail in Tulagi, where 31 died of dysentery. 6 were hanged and 17 were sentenced to long prison terms.

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Footnotes

References

• Roger Keesing and Peter Corris. Lightning Meets the West Wind: The Malaita Massacre. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1980.
• Swinden, G. The natives appear restless tonight; HMAS Adelaide and the punitive expedition to Malaita 1927 in Maritime power in the twentieth century: the Australian experience, D. Stevens, ed. Allen and Unwin, 1998, 54–67.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lavinia Massacre . 24 March 2014 . Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia 1893-1978 .
2. Web site: Sandfly Passage, Nggela, Incident, 1880 . 24 March 2014 . Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia 1893-1978 .
3. Book: Lawrence . David Russell . The Naturalist and his "Beautiful Islands": Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific. October 2014. ANU Press . 9781925022032. 149-151 . Chapter 5 Liberalism, Imperialism and colonial expansion . http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p298111/pdf/ch053.pdf .
4. Web site: IV(11) Pacific Islands Monthly . How Kalekona Got His Head . 22 June 1934. 27 September 2021.
5. Web site: S. Ablott. Schooner ‘Young Dick’. Burton upon Stather Heritage Group. 1 May 2014. 19 March 2024.
6. Web site: Young Dick Massacre, Malaita, 1886 . 24 March 2014 . Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia 1893-1978 .
7. Book: Lawrence . David Russell . The Naturalist and his "Beautiful Islands": Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific. October 2014. ANU Press . 9781925022032. 173-176 . Chapter 6 The British Solomon Islands Protectorate: Colonialism without capital . http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p298111/pdf/ch063.pdf.
8. Web site: Bell, William Robert (1876 - 1927) . 24 March 2014 . Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia 1893-1978 .