Honiara, population 49,107 (1999), 54,600 (2003 est.),'s the capital of the Solomon Islands and of Guadalcanal Province, although it's a separately administered town. The name "Honiara"'s actually a misnomer: the English colonialists found it hard to pronounce the original name of the area in the northern Guadalcanal languages: Nagoniara. Nagoniara means "in front of the wind." Geography and Climate Honiara's located on the northern coast of the island of Guadalcanal and includes a sea port at… (More on Honiara)