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Sam Mooy: Gizo Tsunami - for The Australian

A magnitude 8.0 tsunami crashed ashore on the western Solomon Islands on April 2, 2007, hitting a remote, poverty-stricken region, including the island of Gizo.

Gizo, the second largest town in the Solomons, which has an estimated 10,000 residents, sustained extensive damage due to much of the island being barely above sea level, and many houses built with sea-frontage. Homes and buildings stood little chance of escaping the huge waves that hit the small coastal island.

© Sam Mooy 2010/The Australian Newspaper

Gizo.
  
© Sam Mooy 2007 for The Australian
   
© Sam Mooy 2007 for The Australian
     
  
A woman looks for where her home used to be on the shoreline of the island of Gizo.© Sam Mooy 2007 for The Australian
   
Young boys explore a makeshift town camp atop the island of Gizo.© Sam Mooy 2007 for The Australian
   
A young mother with her child stand in her makeshift campsite atop of the island of Gizo.© Sam Mooy 2007 for The Australian
     
  
Injured residents from the island of Gizo wait to be treated at a makeshift hospital.© Sam Mooy 2007 for The Australian
   
An injured elderly man from the island of Gizo waits to be treated at a makeshift hospital.© Sam Mooy 2007 for The Australian
   
A man hobbles on a makeshift crutch.© Sam Mooy 2007 for The Australian
     
  
A young child suffering from Cholera and Diaorrhea waits to be treated in a town camp.© Sam Mooy 2007 for The Australian
   
© Sam Mooy 2007 for The Australian
   
© Sam Mooy 2007 for The Australian
     
  
Aid arrives on the dock on the island of Gizo.© Sam Mooy 2007 for The Australian
   
A man looks out to sea worried that another wave is coming.© Sam Mooy 2007 for The Australian