Loyalty Islands

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Loyalty Islands
Flag of the Loyalty Islands
French
overseas territory 		New CaledoniaNew Caledonia New Caledonia
Communities 3
president Stéphane Lucien-Brun ( Commissaire Délégué de la République pour la Province des Iles Loyauté )
surface 1,980.90 km²
Residents 18,353
Population density 9 inhabitants / km²

Location of the province
in the overseas region of New CaledoniaNew CaledoniaNew Caledonia 

The Loyalty Islands ( French Îles Loyauté ) are a group of islands in the Pacific . They are part of the French overseas territory of New Caledonia and are about 100 km from the main island. They form the province of the Loyalty Islands, one of the three provinces of New Caledonia, are like New Caledonia in the area of ​​the tropical rainforest and geographically belong to Melanesia . The southeastern island of the group in the geographical sense, Walpole , administratively no longer belongs to the Province of the Loyalty Islands, but to the southern province of New Caledonia, and within it to the municipality of Île des Pins .

geography

The archipelago consists of four atolls : Lifou , Maré , Ouvéa and Tiga , and several smaller islands. Taken together, their area is 2500 km². The highest point is 138 m above sea level on the island of Maré.

population

The population is of mixed Melanesian and Polynesian descent with a small minority of European descent. 18,353 people live on the Loyalty Islands.

history

The first recorded western contact with the residents of the Loyalty Islands is with the British Capt. Attributed to William Raven of the London merchant ship Britannia , which sailed the Norfolk Island – Batavia route in 1793.

However, it is very likely that the actual island discovery and naming goes back to the British ship Loyalty (also Loyalist , Jethro Daggett Master), which made a South Sea trade voyage from London from 1789-1790.

Communities

local community Residents
January 1, 2017 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		Code
INSEE 		Post Code
Lifou 000000000009275.00000000009,275 1,207.10 000000000000008.00000000008th 98814 98820
Maré 000000000005648.00000000005,648 641.70 000000000000009.00000000009 98815 98828
Ouvéa 000000000003374.00000000003,374 132.10 000000000000026.000000000026th 98820 97814
Northern Province 000000000018297.000000000018,297 1,980.90 000000000000009.00000000009 -  - 

economy

The most important export good of the archipelago is copra , the dried core meat of coconuts , from which coconut oil is extracted.

literature

  • Thomas Dunbabin: William Raven, RN, and his "Britannia", 1792–95. In: The Mariner's mirror. Vol. 46, no. 4 (Nov.), London [et al.] 1960 (pp. 297-303).
  • John Dunmore: Who's who in Pacific navigation. Carlton, Vic. 1992.
  • Dietmar Henze: Encyclopedia of the explorers and explorers of the earth. Vol. 4, Graz 2000.
  • AGE Jones: Ships employed in the South Seas trade Vol. 1: 1775-1861. Canberra 1986 and Vol. 2: 1775-1859. Burwood, Vic. 1992.
  • Vivienne Parsons: Raven, William (1756-1814). In: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 2, Melbourne Univ. Press, 1967, pp. 364-365.
  • Saul H. Riesenberg: Six Pacific island discoveries. In: The American neptune. Vol. 34, Salem, Mass. 1974, pp. 249-57.
  • Andrew Sharp: The discovery of the Pacific Islands. Oxford 1960.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ L'État en Nouvelle-Calédonie: Le Commissaire Délégué de la République pour la Province des Iles Loyauté. 2020, accessed on April 8, 2020 (French): “Stéphane LUCIEN-BRUN, Commissaire Délégué de la République pour la Province des Îles Loyauté Pour la province des Iles Loyauté, le siège de la subdivision administrative est situé à Wé sur la commune de Lifou. La province des Îles Loyauté est composée de trois iles et d'autant de communes: Maré, Lifou, Ouvéa (L'ile de Tiga est rattachée administrativement à Lifou) "
  2. ↑ 2019 census