INDEX TO THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. 59 



D'Urville, see Kairu, New Guinea. 



D'Urville, see Nama islet of Losap, Caroline islands. 4. 



Dyar, islet on the New Guinea coast. 1° 37' S., 131° 45' K. 



Eap, an old spelling of Yap, Caroline islands. 



Bar, islet of Uluthi, Caroline islands. 



Earl Dalhousie shoal, Caroline islands. 8° N., 145" 09' E. 



Earle = Pana krusima of the Louisiade archipelago. 



Hast Fail! or Liitke, a low coral island 0.7 m. long, with fringing reef, uninhabited. 

 Caroline islands. 8" 33' N., 151 26' H. 



East, see Waremata of the Louisiade archipelago. 



Hast, a group of four islets off the north coast of New Hanover, the easternmost being 

 the largest. 



East, islet 60 ft. high off Florida, Solomon islands. 



Hast, islet off Kandavu, Fiji; rocky, 69 ft. high. 



Hast, islet of Wari or Teste, New Guinea, 100 ft. high. 



Easter, see Rapanui. 



Hastern, islet of Midway islands, Hawaiian group, 1.2 m. long, 6-15 ft. high, covered 

 with coarse grass and small shrubs; sand dazzling. 28 12' 22" N., 177 22' w. 



Hbadon, islet of Kwadjalin, Marshall islands. 9" 22' N., 166" 53' K. 



Hbon, called also Boston and Covel, of the ^Marshall group, consists of 21 well wooded 

 islets on a reef 25 m. in circumference. Discovered May 25, 1824, by Captain 

 Rav, an American. 4 ' 48' N., 168^ 45' w. The islets of importance are called 

 Jurijer, Enijarmek, Ebon, Dereg, Eniiadok, Guamaguamlap, Euer, Munjak, Taka, 

 Enilo, Jio, Met. Ebon islet forms the south and southeast side of the atoll; 5 m. long; 

 is the largest and most important of the group. American mission station. 6. 



Hbuma, islet So ft. high, near Samarai on the southeast coast of New Guinea. 



Eddystone, see Panarora of the Louisiade archipelago. It is 540 ft. high and inhabited. 



Eddystone, see Narovo, Solomon islands. II. 



Edgecombe, see Tupua, of the Santa Cruz group. 



Hdigen, islet of Kwadjelin, Marshall group. 



Efate^^Fate or A'ate or Sandwich, of the New Hebrides. 



Egerup, see Erikub of the Marshall islands. 6. 



Egg, see Nui of the Ellice group. 18. 



Egg, see Lehua, Hawaiian group. 



Egniont, see Vairaatea, Paumotu archipelago. 23. 



Egmont of Carteret is Santa Cruz, or Deni (Nitendi). 



Hgum, atoll in the Trobriand group, is 13 m. in diameter, the encircling reef opening 

 only on the NW. and NE., having six islets on the north portion, Degargara, 

 Yanaba, Wiakou, Napasa, Tabunagora, Nagian ; while in the centre of the lagoon 

 are Fandaio, vSimlakita, Kadais Mua and Egum in one group to the north, and 

 Nasakor consisting of four islets to the south. 9 26' s., 151° 58' K. 9. 



Hhiki, islet of Panasia, Louisiade archipelago. 



Hiao, called also Masse, Knox, Hiaou, of the ^Larquesas group, is 6 m. XE-SW., 2000 ft. 



high, well wooded, but uninhabited. 8° 02' S., 140' 41' w. 33. 



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