72 INDEX TO THE PACIEIC ISLANDS. 



Grandes CN'clades, a name given by Bougainville to the New Hebrides. 



Grange, see Banabana, New Guinea. 



Grant, a low coral islet near the north point of Basilaki, southeast coast of New 



Guinea. lo" 32' 45" s., 151° 02' 50" R. 

 Grass, or Wanim, islet of the Louisiade archipelago, is 390 ft. high. 

 Green, islet on the Australian coast. 16° 15' s., 146° 01' K. 

 Green, islet of the south coast of Admiraltv. The Groene Evlanden of Tasman. 



2° 15' S., 147° 05' E. 

 Green, islet on northeast coast of Auckland. 



Green, one of the low Tiri islands of \'anua levu, Fiji. 16"^ 24' 14 "s., i79°05'27 "e.Q 

 Green, islet in the southeast corner of the lagoon on Ocean, of the Hawaiian group. 

 Named for W. L. Green, Hawaiian Minister of Foreign Affairs. 28" 25' N., 178° 29' w. 2. 

 Green, islet of Volcano island in Blanche baj-, New Britain. 

 Green, islet in Port Preslin, New Ireland. 

 Green, east of New Ireland, 300 ft. high, denselv wooded. 

 Green, see Pinipel, Bismarck archipelago. 

 Greenwich, Constantin or Kapinga marangi, Caroline islands, consists of 28 islets on 



a reef 14 m. n-s., 8-9 m. K-w. Discovered in 1825; 15° inhabitants, i"' 04' x., 



154° 45' K- 



Greig, see Niau, in the Paumotu archipelago. 



Grenville, a name of Rotuma. 



Gressien, see Muschu in the New Guinea region. 



Griesbach, on the northeast coast of Bougainville, Solomon islands, is a group of 

 small islands. 6° 11' s., 155° 44' E. 



Griffith, near New Guinea. Southwest end 7" 43' s., 144° 35' E. 



Grimes or High, Caroline islands, was discovered by Captain Grimes in 184 1. It is 

 6 m. in circumference, wooded. 9° 15' N., 145° 33' E. 



Grimoult = Kiamu, New Caledonia. 



Gronemann, islet in Astrolabe bay, north coast of New Guinea. Small and uninhabited. 



Gros, islet of Ruk, Caroline islands. 7° 27' 02" N., 151° 53' 50" E. 



Guadalcanar, the Guadalcanal of Gallego and Mendafia who discovered it in April, 

 1568. One of the larger of the Solomon islands. Native name Guambata. 80 m. 

 by 25 m. and 8000 ft. high. Northwest point is in 9° 15' S., 159" 40' E.; east point, 

 9°5o's., 160° 47' E. II. 



Guadalotipe (Islade), in the Solomon islands. Discovered in April, 156S, bv ]Men- 

 daiia's expedition in latitude 9° 30' s. 



Guahan, a spelling of Guam, Marianas group. Guajan is another form. 



Gualito, see Ngtialito, Fiji. 



Guam or Guajan of the Tvlarianas or Ladrones. On this island, in 1668, the Span- 

 iards founded a mission under the direc^tion of Padre de Sanvitores who declares 

 that during the first year he baptized 13,000 people and converted 20,000. His 

 conversions were so very thorough that when Dampier visited the islands in 1686 

 there were but 400 alive! Kotzebue, in 1817, found a single couple of the in- 

 digenes surviving. The population in 1873 amounted to about 7000, imported from 

 the Philippines and the Carolines. Guam is 29 m. long. Ks a result of the 



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