Shortland Island

Aluminum (also called Shortland Iceland ) is an island in the northwest of the island nation of the Solomon Islands. It has a land area of 221 km ², the highest point is at 237 m above sea level.

The island belongs to the Shortland Islands, which divide the archipelago of the Solomon Islands geopolitically into a northern and southern group a.

On Alu lived in 1976 about 2,000 people.