Town Ground, Honiara Town Ground, Honiara Town Ground is a suburb in Honiara, Solomon Islands, located in the main center on the Tandai Highway. Town Ground is in the Honiara City Council ward of Nggosi and Rove-Lengakiki. Town Ground is East of Rove and West of Point Cruz. In 2003 Iron Bottom Sound Hotel was the initial base for the first elements of the intervention force sent to restore order following the civil tensions. Prior to the 2006 ethnic riots, a political crisis was unfolding. The Prime Minister Snyder Rini, remained under police guard and the Opposition Leader Francis Billy Hilly and his
Honiara Honiara which replaced the King Solomon Hotel, which was gutted during the 2006 riots. Restaurants of note include the Capitana Restaurant of the Mendana Hotel (serving Japanese cuisine), the Le Rendezvous Restaurant of the King Solomon Hotel (serving Oriental cuisine), Club Havanah in the Honiara Hotel, Raintree Cafe, Ning's Coffee Shop, and Hong Kong Palace, located in a "blood-red pagoda on Hibuscus Avenue". In 1974, Polynesian Dances of Bellona (Mungiki), which included "suahongi" form, forbidden to be performed by the Seventh Day Adventist missionaries, was revived and recorded in Honiara. "Suahongi" is performed at the conclusion of the ritual of