Australia will provide more support to the Solomon Islands government in the wake of last week's tsunami, which has now claimed at least 10 lives.

Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr is in the Solomons today to discuss the recovery process and will visit tsunami-affected areas of the Santa Cruz Islands, where entire villages were washed away during the one-metre wave.

Senator Carr was greeted at Honiara's International airport by Solomon Islands prime minister Gordon Darcy Lilo, who thanked him for the assistance Australia has already given.

Australia has sent two logistics and disaster relief experts to Santa Cruz and more than $250,000 in aid to the Solomon Islands Red Cross.

Additional support includes funding for an emergency flight carrying three doctors and three nurses to areas most badly affected by the tsunami, and the evacuation of severely injured people back to medical care in the capital.

Senator Carr said Australia had responded as it would have if the tsunami had hit Australia.

"We're deploying two AUSAID workers to get into Lata to assess the damage and help coordinate relief, and a medical flight to the disaster zone," he said.

"We'll fund the evacuation of two people injured in the tsunami to get hospital treatment elsewhere in the Solomons."

Last week's tsunami was triggered by a powerful magnitude 8.0 earthquake.