Sight-seeing in the Solomon Islands

Baker, Michelle L

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb06850.x

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The Solomon Islands is a nation of warm people, tropical islands, shipwrecks and malaria. It is also a nation in urgent need of specialised medical care.

Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC.

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Acknowledgements:

I thank Josef Oduwo for the title, Geoffrey Painter, Richard Le Mesurier and Phillippa Connelly for editorial input, Ted Jones from AusAID for on-the-ground support, David Ford for donating medicine, and Steven Baker for the graphics.

1. Central Intelligence Agency. Washington: the world factbook. Available at: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bp.html [updated 2004 December 16; cited 2004 October 23] (accessed May 2005).
2. Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Available at: http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/solomon_islands [updated 2005 January 14; cited 2004 October 23] (accessed May 2005).

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