Loyalty Islands Province

Coordinates: 21°04′S 167°21′E / 21.067°S 167.350°E / -21.067; 167.350
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
(Redirected from
Loyalty Islands
)
Loyalty Islands Province
Province des îles Loyauté
Flag of Loyalty Islands Province
  Location of Loyalty Islands Province in New Caledonia
Coordinates: 21°04′S 167°21′E / 21.067°S 167.350°E / -21.067; 167.350
CountryFrance
CollectivityNew Caledonia
Seat (Lifou)
Government
 • PresidentJacques Lalié
Area
 • Total1,980.9 km2 (764.8 sq mi)
Population
 (2019)
 • Total18,353
 • Density9.3/km2 (24/sq mi)
Ethnic Groups (2019)
 • Kanak94.63%
 • Multiracial2%
 • European1.74%
 • Ni-Vanuatu0.09%
 • Wallisians and Futunans0.08%
 • Indonesians0.05%
 • Other Asian0.02%
 • Tahitians0.01%
 • Vietnamese0.01%
 • Other1.38%
LanguagesDrehu, Iaai, Nengone
Websiteprovince-iles.nc

Loyalty Islands Province (French: Province des îles Loyauté) is one of the three top-level administrative subdivisions of New Caledonia. It encompasses the Loyalty Islands (French: Îles Loyauté) archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, located northeast of the New Caledonian mainland of Grande Terre.

The provincial government seat is at

collectivité territoriale of France. The province's 2019 population was approximately 18,353 inhabitants living on almost 2,000 km2 (770 sq mi). The native inhabitants are the Kanak
and the Tavu'avua' peoples.

History

The first Western contact on record is attributed to British Captain William Raven of the whaler Britannia, who was on his way in 1793 from Norfolk Island to Batavia (now called Jakarta). It is very likely, however, that the discovery and name originated with officials on the London ship Loyalty, which was on a Pacific Ocean trading voyage from 1789 to 1790.[citation needed]

The

The Coming of the Light", on 1 July 1871.[3][4][5][6]

Geography

The archipelago consists of six inhabited islands –

above sea level on Maré Island. The islands are part of the New Caledonia rain forests ecoregion. The chief export of the Loyalty Islands is copra
.

An earthquake of moment magnitude 7.7 was reported just after midnight on 11 February 2021 in an area south-east of the islands, with several aftershocks.[7] Over 50 quakes of magnitude greater than 4.5 were recorded in less than 24 hours, and then on the 19 May another quake of the same magnitude happened and caused tsunamis detected by geonets DART (Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami) and hit everywhere (mostly) in the Pacific Ocean and another of the same size on 20 May triggering another tsunami warning.

Demographics

The people of the Loyalty Islands are of mixed Melanesian and Polynesian ancestry, with a small European minority. The population numbered 17,436 in the 2009 census, a 7.9% reduction from the 22,080 in the preceding 2004 census. In 2014 the population grew to 18,297, an increase of 4.9%, and in 2019 the population grew a further 0.1% to 18,353.[8][9]

Several thousand more Loyalty Islanders live on New Caledonia, especially in Nouméa, the capital, and in the mining areas of the main island.

Communes

The Loyalty Islands Province is divided into three

communes
(municipalities):

Provincial congress

As of 2018, there are 14 seats in the province's congress held by six parties: the nationalist

Union of Pro-Independence Co-operation Committees
each have two.

Presidents of Loyalty Province

See also

References

  1. ^ Gibbney, H. J. (1974). "Samuel Macfarlane". Australian Dictionary of Biography . Retrieved 3 August 2021. This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5, (MUP), 1974
  2. The Courier Mail
    . Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  3. ^ "All Saints Anglican Church (entry 600873)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Dated 20 January 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  4. ^ Willis, Carli (26 July 2021). "Zulai Wan marks an encounter 150 years ago that changed Torres Strait Islanders' lives forever". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Missionary Ships". Shipping Wonders of the World (Part 51). 26 January 1937. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  6. ^ "The Coming of the Light". Anglican Board of Mission. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  7. ^ "M 7.7 - southeast of the Loyalty Islands". www.usgs.gov. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  8. ^ "Population Structure and Trends". Institute de la Statistique et des études économiques Nouvelle-Calédonie (in French). Institute de la Statistique et des études économiques Nouvelle-Calédonie. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  9. ^ "ISEE - Population 2009". Archived from the original on 2012-09-29. Retrieved 2015-07-24.

Bibliography

NZ DART Network Data https://www.geonet.org.nz/tsunami/dart