List of massacres in the Solomon Islands

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in the Solomon Islands archipelago prior to the formation of the nation state of Solomon Islands (numbers may be approximate):

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Notes
Lavinia massacre	1872	Nggela Islands	6	Death of the crew of the trading schooner Lavinia while collecting bêche-de-mer.^[1]
Sandfly Passage incident	October 1880	Nggela Islands	4	Death of Lieutenant Bower, commander of HMS Sandfly, and 3 crewmen.^[2]^[3]^[4]
Young Dick massacre	20 May 1886	Malaita	12	Death of about 6 crewman and 6 Malaitans on the schooner Young Dick while on a blackbirding voyage.^[5]^[6]
Albatros massacre	10 August 1896	Guadalcanal	5	Massacre of Baron von Norbeck, geologist and director of the Imperial and Royal Geological Society of Vienna and 4 crewman of the Albatros, killed while climbing Mount Lammas.^[7]
Malaita massacre	October 3, 1927 October 12, 1927	Malaita	15 Europeans 40-200 Kwaio	Death of William R. Bell, the District Officer of Malaita, his assistant Lilley, and another thirteen of his deputies while collecting tax.^[8] About sixty people were shot in the punitive expedition; about 200 men were taken to jail in Tulagi, where 31 died of dysentery. 6 were hanged and 17 were sentenced to long prison terms.^[8]

Notes

Roger Keesing and Peter Corris. Lightning Meets the West Wind: The Malaita Massacre. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Swinden, G. The natives appear restless tonight; HMAS Adelaide and the punitive expedition to Malaita 1927 in Maritime power in the twentieth century: the Australian experience, D. Stevens, ed. Allen and Unwin, 1998, 54–67.