Loyalty Islands

American  

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. a group of coral islands in the southern Pacific Ocean belonging to the French territory of New Caledonia. 761 sq. mi. (1,970 sq. km).

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Example Sentences

The closest landmass to the epicenter is the Loyalty Islands in the French overseas collectivity of New Caledonia.

From Washington Times • May 19, 2023

"While there are queues of voters at Noumea town hall in the capital, few voters are turning out so far in Kanak-majority areas in the Loyalty Islands and Northern Province."

From Reuters • Dec. 12, 2021

It treats of the language of the Fiji Islands, New Hebrides, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, &c., and shows their radical affinity with the Polynesian class.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

But next morning we had passed the Loyalty Islands and were rolling in the heavy swell the south-east trade raises on the endless surface of the Pacific.

From Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific by Speiser, Felix

Besides the Resident and myself there were on board the French judge, the police commissioner, and a crew of boys from the Loyalty Islands near New Caledonia.

From Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific by Speiser, Felix