Ghari

The Ghari are an Oceanic people of the western and northern coasts of Guadalcanal, the largest island in the Solomon Islands, known to its inhabitants as Isatabu. Their language, also called Gari or West Guadalcanal, comprises several dialects and serves as a trade lingua franca along the coast.

Human settlement on Guadalcanal reaches back to 4500 to 2500 BC. Austronesian Lapita peoples reached the island around 1200 to 800 BC.

The island was first charted for Europeans in 1568 by Mendaña's Spanish expedition, which named it after the village of Guadalcanal in Andalusia. After their first settlement on Santa Isabel failed, the Spaniards moved their short-lived colony to Guadalcanal's north coast before abandoning the archipelago.