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In early August 1942, hoping to halt the expansion of the Japanese in the South Pacific, Allied forces, including 4000 Kiwis,  landed on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands marking the start of one of the bloodiest conflicts seen in the South Pacific WWII theatre.

Easily reached by direct Solomon Airlines flights ex-Brisbane and just a 60 minute flight west of the Solomon Islands’ capital Honiara, sleepy Munda is the gateway to the Roviana Lagoon, one of the destination’s richest cultural heartlands.

A sixty-minute flight from Honiara, Munda in the Western Province was once known as the home of the Solomon Islands’ fiercest headhunting clans.

Today Munda is renowned for very different reasons, primarily as a mecca for international SCUBA enthusiasts looking to experience a  pristine, world-class dive environment.

A mecca for international SCUBA enthusiasts  looking to experience a  pristine, world-class dive environment, it doesn’t get much better than Munda in the Solomon Islands’ Western Province.

Evidence of the heavy fighting between Japanese and US forces can be found all over the Western Province region of Munda.