Loyalty Islands

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The Loyalty Islands are a group of coral islands in the Pacific Ocean that form part of New Caledonia and are home to a significant Kanak population.

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Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf archipelago
administeredBy Province of the Loyalty Islands
capital
climate tropical
country France
discoveredByEuropeans 19th century
dominantDenomination Protestantism
Roman Catholicism
economy fishing
subsistence agriculture
tourism
ethnicGroup European settlers
Kanak people
Wallisian and Futunan people
linked to: Wallisian people
feature coral reefs
lagoon beaches
limestone cliffs
geologicalType raised coral atoll
governingBody Province des Îles Loyauté
hasAirport Lifou Airport
Maré Airport
Ouvéa Airport
hasIsland Aaa (uninhabited island)
Drehu (local name for Lifou)
linked to: Lifou Island

Faiava (uninhabited island)
Lifou
linked to: Lifou Island

Maré
Mouli (islet)
Ouvéa
linked to: Ouvéa Island

Tiga
historicalColonizer France
largestSettlement
localLanguage Drehu
Iaai
Nengone
localLanguageFamily Austronesian languages
locatedIn Melanesia
Pacific Ocean
South Pacific
majorityIndigenousPopulation Kanak people
namedBy British navigators
nameOrigin named in honor of the ship HMS Loyalty or as a reference to loyalty
officialLanguage French
overseasTerritoryOf France
partOf New Caledonia
partOfCollectivity New Caledonia
politicalStatus part of French overseas collectivity of New Caledonia
religion Christianity
sovereignState France
timeZone UTC+11

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kanak people majorIsland Loyalty Islands
Nengone region Loyalty Islands
Drehu spokenIn Loyalty Islands
Nouméa Magenta Airport servesRegion Loyalty Islands
Archdiocese of Nouméa territoryIncludes Loyalty Islands
Kanak languages region Loyalty Islands
Lifu language region Loyalty Islands
Lifou people locatedIn Loyalty Islands
Lifou people culturalRegion Loyalty Islands cultural area
linked to: Loyalty Islands
Mare spokenIn Loyalty Islands
Maré Island locatedIn Loyalty Islands
Loyalty Islands Province locatedIn Loyalty Islands archipelago
linked to: Loyalty Islands
Iaai region Loyalty Islands
Southern Melanesian languages spokenIn Loyalty Islands
West Uvean spokenIn Loyalty Islands
West Uvean region Loyalty Islands
Faga Uvea spokenInRegion Loyalty Islands
Fagauvea region Loyalty Islands
Ouvéa Uvean spokenIn Loyalty Islands
Lifou Island locatedIn Loyalty Islands
Lifou Island islandGroup Loyalty Islands
Lifou Island largestIslandOf Loyalty Islands
Ouvéa Island locatedIn Loyalty Islands
Nengone people region Loyalty Islands
Iaai people locatedIn Loyalty Islands
Kuto Bay partOf Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia tourism region
linked to: Loyalty Islands
Mare Island language spokenIn Loyalty Islands
New Caledonia Ridge includes Loyalty Islands
New Caledonia Ridge emergentPortion Loyalty Islands archipelago
linked to: Loyalty Islands
Loyalty Basin isInVicinityOf Loyalty Islands
Dehu hasRegion Loyalty Islands
New Caledonia Time usedInRegion Loyalty Islands
Pacific territories hasMember Loyalty Islands