Loyalty Islands

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).

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Times

"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

The epicentre was recorded as 168km east-south-east of Tadine, a town on one of New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands.

From BBC

“The 7.6 mag #earthquake near the Loyalty Islands no longer poses a #tsunami threat,” the center tweeted shortly after 10 p.m.

From Washington Times

For, whereas in Tahiti, New Zealand and Fiji it is no commoner now than it was a century ago, in Hawaii it has increased so rapidly that in forty years after its introduction it had infected one in every thirty of the native population; in New Caledonia in twenty years it had infected 4000; and in the Loyalty Islands six years of the disease in Mare alone had produced seventy lepers.

From Project Gutenberg