Owaraha or Owa Raha (formerly Santa Ana) is an island in the Solomon Islands; it is located in Makira-Ulawa Province. his relatively small coral island is 5,6 km long and 4, 5 km wide. It is located at the eastern end of Makira, separated from it by a 7,5 km wide strait, and just north of smaller Owariki. The sound between Owaraha and Owariki is only 2.5 km wide. The island has two main villages Gupuna and Nafinotoga. The inhabitants of Owaraha speak the Owa language and share the same culture with the people in Owariki and in the eastern end of Makira Island. Owaraha was visited by Austrian anthropologist and photographer Hugo Bernatzik in 1932. Bernatzik carefully documented daily life among the island people and published an ethnography a few years later. He also took some of the best and earliest photographs of the islanders, reflecting a culture that he deemed was dying in contact with the modern world.