Choiseul Province Day in the Solomon Islands
Choiseul Province Day in the Solomon Islands is held on February 25. This event in the third decade of the month February is annual. Help us
Choiseul is home to rare pottery and weaving. This Solomon Islands province also boasts the highest number of sites declared marine-protected area. These sites are naturally rich in marine biodiversity that needs to be preserved. The flora and fauna are both charactistic of Australia and New Guinea.
Each province in the Solomon Islands has its own Province Day. If a Province Day falls on a Sunday, the public holiday is on the following Monday.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Easter Monday on April 21 (Påskedag in Norway);
Anzac Day on April 25 (Australia, New Zealand, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Western Samoa. It commemorates the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps - ANZAC - on the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915);
Temotu Province Festival in the Solomon Islands on June 8 (the most eastern of the provinces. Date of formation - 1981);
Coral Triangle Day on June 9 (The CTD was first held on June 10, 2012, as a regional interpretation of World Oceans Day. During the 8th Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (a multilateral partnership to safeguard the Coral Triangle's marine and coastal biological resources) Senior Official Meeting, member countries declared to designate the Coral Triangle Day to be held annually. The region covers the exclusive economic zones of six countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste);
Whit Monday on June 9 (celebrated on the day after Pentecost)