Malaita Island is the largest island of the Malaita Province in the Solomon Islands. A tropical and mountainous island, Malaita's pristine river systems and tropical forests have not been exploited. Malaita is the most populous island of the Solomon Islands, with 140,000http://www.spc.int/prism/country/sb/stats/Social/Popcen/Projection.htm The National Statistics Office gives the estimated 2007 population of the whole province, including Small Malaita and other outlying islands, as 149,180. people or more than a third of the entire national population.