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

Patteson's first experience of this was in 1858, when he spent three months at Lifu in the Loyalty Islands, a group which was later to be annexed by the French.

From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by Blore, George Henry

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

We left New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands on our port side, then steered to the north between the New Hebrides and the Fiji Islands, at neither of which my brother wished to touch.

From The Cruise of the Dainty Rovings in the Pacific by Kingston, William Henry Giles