Isatabu

Isatabu is an Indigenous name for Guadalcanal, a large mountainous island in the central Solomon Islands. Forested ridges and river valleys descend to coastal plains facing the Nggela Islands and Malaita. In 1568 the Spanish expedition of Álvaro de Mendaña reached the island and gave it the European name Guadalcanal, after a town in Spain. Its inhabitants retained their own languages and local traditions.