millions of years ago
these powerful reptiles had already begun their push eastwards
for any animal castaway
first hurdle would have been the 60-mile stretch of water
that separetes New Guinea from the next group of island-theSolomons
instead of one dominating island,like New Guinea
the Solomon are made up of almost a thousand smaller jewels
scattered along a 900-miles chain.
all these islands erupted out of the sea and were ripe for colonisation