Tulagi

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Tulagi

Ngella Island
Tulagi Tulagi Island
Geography
Location	Solomon Islands
Coordinates	9°06′05″S 160°08′48″E / 9.10139°S 160.14667°E / -9.10139; 160.14667
Area	2.08 km2 (0.80 sq mi)
Length	2.8 km (1.74 mi)
Width	0.8 km (0.5 mi)
Highest elevation	100 m (300 ft)
Administration
Solomon Islands
Province	Central
Island group	Nggela (Florida) Islands
Demographics
Population	1,251 (2009)

Tulagi, less commonly known as Tulaghi, is a small island in the Solomon Islands, just off the south coast of Ngella Sule. The town of the same name on the island (pop. 1,750) was the capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1896 to 1942 and is today the capital of the Central Province. The capital of what is now the state of Solomon Islands moved to Honiara, Guadalcanal, after World War II.

The island was originally chosen by the British as a comparatively isolated and healthier alternative to the disease-ridden larger islands of the Solomon Islands archipelago.

In October 2019, the government of Central Province signed a deal to grant the 75-year lease of the entire island of Tulagi to a Chinese company China Sam Enterprise Group.^[1] However, this was declared unconstitutional by the Solomon Islands parliament after a week and, consequently, the deal was cancelled.