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Other islands are Santa Isabel (4,662 sq km), Malaita (3,885 sq km), Choiseul (3,837 sq km), New Georgia (3,368 sq km), and Makira (San Cristobal, 3,125 sq km), among other islands there are the atolls of Rennell and Ontong Java, the Santa Cruz islands, Rennell, Bellona and the isolated islands of Tikopia, Anuta and Fatutaka. The archipelago contains several still active volcanoes, among them the most active volcanoes are the Tinakula (851 metres) and Kavachi an underwater volcano, south of the island of Vangunu. At the base of the islands economy is agriculture, especially the cultivation of palm trees (copra) and oil, fairly well developed are breeding (cattle, pigs), fishing (tuna) and the exploitation of forest resources. The subsoil resources have extensive deposits of bauxite and phosphates.
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