Mount Veve, Extinct volcano in Kolombangara Island, Solomon Islands.
Mount Veve is a dormant stratovolcano on Kolombangara in the Solomon Islands and the island's highest point at 1,768 metres. Its summit is a roughly circular dome whose green, ridged gullies radiate from the centre, with pale pink and white patches scattered across the upper left, lower left edge and right flank. The outer boundary drops steeply on all sides.
Spanish explorer Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira documented the island in 1568 during his Pacific expeditions. The area later came under British control and became part of the British Solomon Islands protectorate in 1893.
Mount Veve gives Kolombangara its name in local usage, and the island's interior is reached from the coast at Ringgi and Mongga. Villages on the island speak Kolombangara, a Northwest Solomonic language, and customary land tenure still governs the slopes. The summit crater rim is a landmark fishermen on the Vila River refer to when reading the weather.
The mountain can be reached through a multi-day trek from Imbu Rano Lodge via maintained trails that pass through cloud forests. Along the way there are basic rest camps and you should prepare for wet, slippery terrain.
The mountain slopes contain ancient agricultural systems in Ndughore Valley with stone-faced pond fields and complex irrigation networks. These structures reveal the farming ingenuity of earlier generations who adapted to the mountain landscape.
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