Mono

The Mono are the people of Mono, the largest of the Treasury Islands, a volcanic group in the northwest of the Solomon Islands south of Bougainville, ringed by high limestone cliffs with its main village at Falamai. Their language, Mono-Alu, is an Austronesian tongue shared with the neighbouring islands of Alu and Fauro, whose communities together are often called FAMOA.

The French expedition of Louis Antoine de Bougainville sighted Mono in 1768, and in 1788 the British naval officer John Shortland encountered the group and gave the Treasury Islands their European name.