Honiara Botanic Gardens Honiara Botanic Gardens The Honiara Botanic Gardens are located in Rove, Honiara, Solomon Islands. They are about west of the main center off the Tandai Highway on Garden Drive (opposite the Iron Bottom Sound hotel). Garden Drive meanders around the prison complex and is just past the Solomon Islands Broadcasting buildings. The Rove Botanical Gardens is located immediately behind the Rove Prison. Once a showpiece of Whitmore's collection and Geoff Dennis gardening the gardens deteriorated in the 1980s. Following a publication by C.P Henderson and I.R Hancock in 1988, a New Zealand volunteer David Glenny, Geoff Dennis and Myknee Qusa
Honiara of a Japanese ship destroyed on 23 October 1942 by American artillery and small arms can be seen. At the back of the beach there is a settlement called the Lord Howe Settlement, consisting of a large community of Polynesians from Ongtong Java in the Western Provinces. Chinatown, with its high porches, is said to look like an "Asian Wild West". Honiara Children's Park is a property of the Honiara Beautification Committee. The park, the only children's recreation area in Honiara, is located along the eastern coast of Honiara town as all other areas in the region are private property.