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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A group of coral islands of the southwest Pacific Ocean northeast of New Caledonia, of which they are an administrative division.
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The average annual rainfall is about 1,500 millimeters (mm) for the Loyalty Islands, 2,000 mm for the low elevation eastern Grand Terre, and 2,000-4,000 mm at high elevations.
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The soils of the Loyalty Islands to the east and Iles des Pines to the south of Grand Terre are largely from limestone substrates that resulted from the volcanic uplifting of corals when the islands were formed.
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All other islands of New Caledonia (including the Loyalty Islands and Iles des Pines) have been included as part of the ecoregion based on assumptions of rainfall vegetation descriptions appearing in Mueller-Dombois.
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The region's 18,972 km2 consist of the main island of Grande Terre and the smaller Loyalty Islands to the east, Belep and Surprise Islands to the north and Isle of Pines to the south.
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One glaring gap in New Caledonia's biodiversity protection is the lack of protected areas in the Loyalty Islands.
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It comprises the island of New Caledonia, the Isle of Pines, the Loyalty Islands, Walpole Island, and the Huon, Chesterfield, and Belep groups.
New Caledonia The World Factbook 2008
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The tropical moist forest of this ecoregion is generally subdivided into lowland rain forests of the Loyalty Islands and Grand Terre, the montane forests of Grand Terre, and Grand Terre's wet maquis forest.
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The hotspot's two snake species, the Pacific boa (Candoia bibroni) and a small burrowing blind snake (Ramphotyphlops willeyi) from the family Typhlopidae, are restricted to the Loyalty Islands.
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Patteson's first experience of this was in 1858, when he spent three months at Lifu in the Loyalty Islands, a group which was later to be annexed by the
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore
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Daniel Haumont, in Tibet, in Cocos Island and Loyalty Islands, respectively, as well as through the opening of Laos and Cambodia and of the Islands of Pemba, Fernando Po, Trinidad and Corisco — territories not included in the provisions of the Ten-Year Plan, — and as a result of information recently received indicating the presence of a few believers in the Soviet Republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927
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