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

The Dayspring, doing duty among the Loyalty Islands, left me, along with my dear wife, on Mare, there to await an opportunity of getting to New Caledonia, and thence to Sydney.

From The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by Paton, James

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

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