Santa Cruz Islands
Island in the Pacific / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Santa Cruz Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. For the Santa Cruz Island off the continental United States, see Santa Cruz Island. For the island of the Galápagos, see Santa Cruz Island (Galápagos).
"Queen Charlotte's Islands" redirects here. For the group of islands in the North Pacific once known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, see Haida Gwaii.
The Santa Cruz Islands are a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of Temotu Province of the nation of Solomon Islands. They lie approximately 250 miles (220 nmi; 400 km) to the southeast of the Solomon Islands archipelago. The Santa Cruz Islands lie just north of the archipelago of Vanuatu, and are considered part of the Vanuatu rain forests ecoregion.