Bass Islands

This article covers the archipelago in the south of the Duff Islands, Solomon Islands; for the archipelago of the same name of the Austral Islands, French Polynesia see Marotiri .

Bass Islands
NASA image of the Bass Islands
Waters	Coral sea
archipelago	Duff Islands
Geographical location	9 ° 56 ′  S , 167 ° 14 ′  E Coordinates: 9 ° 56 ′  S , 167 ° 14 ′  E
Number of islands	3
Main island	Lua
Residents	uninhabited
Isle de Baſs right on map by James Wilson  (1799)

The Bass Islands are a subordinate group in the south of the Duff Islands of the island state of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific .

geography

The group consists of three or four small rock islands (from north to south):

• Lua (with a very small, unnamed rock island in front of it to the north)
• Kaa
• Loreva Island

All islands are uninhabited.

history

On the handwritten nautical chart of James Wilson , captain of the mission ship Duff of the London Missionary Society , from 1799 the Bass Islands are first verifiably mentioned, as Isle de Baſs , with the reference to the entire Duff archipelago Diſcovered September 25 , 1797 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.itaggit.com/Collection/eBay-Catalog/167562/Thing/1201015-1-81671/1797-Wilson-Map-of-The-Duff-Islands,-Solomon-Islands