Named after its largest island,
Malaita is one of the largest provinces
of the
Solomon Islands, the island nation located in
Oceania, to the
east of
Papua New Guinea and northwest of
Vanuatu. Malaitans are of a
varying phenotype. The skin varies from rich chocolate to tawny, most
clearly darker than
Polynesians, but not generally as dark as the
peoples of
Bougainville or the western Solomons, who Malaitans refer to
as "black men". Most of them are shorter than average Europeans, though
not as short as
Negritos.
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