Draw Solomon Islands from Memory
Test your geography knowledge by drawing Solomon Islands from memory on a blank canvas. Shape comparison scoring is coming soon — practice Solomon Islands's outline in the meantime.
Related Countries in Oceania
Why Solomon Islands Looks the Way It Does
Guadalcanal is the name the Second World War made famous, and the six-month land campaign fought on it in 1942 and 1943 turned a volcanic island most outsiders had never heard of into shorthand for the Pacific theatre. The fighting centered on an airfield the Japanese had begun and the Americans finished, and the nearby waters, littered with warships from both navies, are still called Iron Bottom Sound. The island's name is far older: Spanish sailors in 1568, hoping these islands held the gold of Solomon, labelled the largest one after a small town in Andalusia.
The country is 992 islands along a double chain running northwest to southeast, part of the same volcanic arc as Bougainville next door and Vanuatu beyond it. Everything here rides the Ring of Fire, and the ground moves visibly: the magnitude 8.1 earthquake of April 2007 lifted parts of some islands by several meters, hauling reefs clear of the water and leaving them white and dying above the tide line.
Because the chain is long and thin, the sea between the islands has always mattered more than the land itself. Travel still runs by boat along the axis of the group, and the modern capital grew up beside that wartime airfield rather than on any larger or older center. Some inland communities had little sustained contact with outsiders until well into the twentieth century, which is why the archipelago's languages and chiefdoms remained so local for so long.
Sketched from memory, the trick is a diagonal of stepping stones with a second, fainter row trailing behind it.
Quick Facts: Solomon Islands
- Capital
- Honiara
- Continent
- Oceania
- Bordering countries
- 3 countries — Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Fiji
- Area
- 28,896 km²
What is "Drawing Solomon Islands from Memory"?
Drawing Solomon Islands from memory means sketching Solomon Islands's border on a blank canvas without looking at a map. Focus on the country's distinctive features and overall shape — that's what pushes your accuracy score up.
Solomon Islands sits in Oceania and is rated ★★★ out of 4 for drawing difficulty — a trickier outline with more detail to remember. It connects to 3 neighboring country pages on this site. Border comparison scoring for Solomon Islands is coming soon — the shape tips below will get your mental map sharp before it lands.
The Solomon Islands are a long chain of islands running from northwest to southeast in roughly two parallel rows, with large mountainous Guadalcanal dominating the southern line and a series of big islands extending along the northern line.
How to Draw Solomon Islands from Memory
Step 01
Sketch the country as a long, loose double line of islands slanting from northwest to southeast, because that chain is the entire shape of the Solomon Islands. Draw the two rows roughly parallel, with the larger islands on the southern row and a more broken scatter along the northern row. Keep the whole chain long and thin, since its length far exceeds its width.
Step 02
Make Guadalcanal the dominant island: draw it as the largest, most solid shape on the southern row, a long oval with a mountainous interior. Place it in the middle of the chain rather than at either end, and let the smaller islands of the New Georgia group cluster around it to the west. Malaita sits across on the northern row, forming a pair.
Step 03
Anchor the chain with its neighbors: Papua New Guinea lies to the northwest, Vanuatu to the southeast, and Fiji far to the east. The Solomon Islands should read as the long stepping-stone bridge between PNG and Vanuatu, running southeast and pointing its far end toward Fiji. Remember that Bougainville, though part of PNG, sits on this same line at the northern end.
A long double row of islands slanting like stepping stones from northwest to southeast, with big Guadalcanal near the southern line and the chain trailing toward Bougainville.
How Solomon Islands Is Scored
When you hit Reveal & compare, your sketch is measured against Solomon Islands's real border, point by point, in the same canvas space. Three numbers come back:
Matched — the share of the real border your drawing covered. 100% means you traced every part of the outline.
Extra — how much of your drawing fell outside the true border. This catches sketches that are too big, mispositioned, or drifting off.
Missed — the border you didn't reach, the flip side of Matched.
The three combine into a single 0–100 accuracy score. The rating names give you a target: 80+ is Cartographer, 60+ is Border patrol, 40+ is Getting there, and below 40 is Try again.
Automated scoring for Solomon Islands is coming soon. When it ships, drawing large and centered will be the fastest way to raise your score, because a small sketch overlaps less of the true border.
FAQ
- Which countries are Solomon Islands's neighbors?
- Solomon Islands connects to 3 neighboring country pages on this site: Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, and Fiji. Once you've drawn Solomon Islands, try a neighbor next — drawing two shapes side by side locks both into your mental map.
- How hard is it to draw Solomon Islands from memory?
- Solomon Islands is rated ★★★ out of 4 for drawing difficulty — a trickier outline with more detail to remember. Automated scoring is coming soon, so use the shape tips below to practice in the meantime.
- How is my Solomon Islands drawing scored?
- Once Solomon Islands's border data goes live, your sketch will be compared with the real border point by point. You'll get a 0–100 score built from Matched, Missed, and Extra, plus a clear overlay showing where you nailed it and where you drifted.
- Can I draw Solomon Islands on mobile?
- Yes — Solomon Islands works on desktop, tablet, and mobile. Draw with your finger on touchscreens; no app download is required and it runs directly in your browser.