46 INDEX TO THE PACIEC ISLANDS. 



Blelatsch, islet of Yap, CaroHne archipelago. 9° 30' 10" X., 138° 04' 42" E. 



Bligli, see Mematangi of the Paumotu archipelago. 



Bligh, Ureparapara of the Banks group. There is a Bligh island in Nootka sound, 

 and another off the coast of Alaska. The name recalls the commander of the 

 B<iii>!ly. 



Blosseville, a high, steep, wooded crater with several villages on the crater edge. 

 3' 36' S., 144° 32' E. 8. 



Blunt, see Mbiilia, Fiji. 



Bobo, or Bristow, a low, mangrove-covered island, 11-12 m. in circumference on the 

 coast of New Guinea. 9° 08' S., 143° 14' E. 



Bobo eitia, or Huxley of the Louisiade archipelago, is 800 ft. high and thickly wooded. 



Bobu, islet on the north coast of Murua or Woodlark island. 8" 58' S., 152° 46' E. 



Boiaboiawagga, islet in the Louisiade archipelago a quarter-mile long E-w., densely 

 wooded. 



Bock, islet of Ailinglablab, Marshall group. Another of the same name is an islet of 

 Udjae. 



Bogen, islet of Maloelab, Marshall islands. 



Boh, islet in Tanle bay on the northeast coast of New Caledonia. 



BoigU, or Paigo, a low, swampy island 6 m. K-\v., 2 m. x-S., near the mouth of the 

 Mai Kassa river on the south coast of New Guinea. 9' 20' s., 142° 15' E. 



Boimagi, of the Kiriwina or Trobriand group. 8' 31' s., 150° 52' E. 



Boirama, a grassy islet 290 ft. high, northeast from Nukata in the Louisiade archi- 

 pelago. 



Bolabola, or Borabora of the Society group, is mountainous and pic5lurescpie, rising in 

 ]\It. Pahia to 2165 ft. Large population. North end is in 16" 22'.S., i5i°4o'w. ZO. 



Bolang, on the coast of New Guinea. 2 03' s., 131' 56' E. 



Bonabe, Panopea, Baanopa, or Ocean, of the Gilbert islands, was discovered in 1804 

 from the ship Ocean. It is lo-ii m. in circumference, o' 52' 02" S., 169" 35' E. 



Bonabona = Torlesse, islets in the Louisiade archipelago. 



Bonham, see Jaluit of the Marshall islands. 



Botlin, Bonin-sima, a chain extending almost x-S. from 27 45' to 26 32' x., divided 

 into four small groups. Parry, Kater, Peel and Coffin. The}- are high and vol- 

 canic; except a small colony on Peel they are uninhabited. Probably discovered 

 b}^ Japanese fishermen about 1675, they were unknown to the world till 1823 

 when Captain Coffin, an American whaler, discovered and took possession of the 

 southern group. In 1824 John Ebbets, another American, discovered the central 

 since called Peel. Visited by Liitke 1828, Beechey 1827, Collinson 1853, and by 

 Commodore Perry. Claimed by Japan. 



Bonnawan, a grassy islet a mile x-S., and 335 ft. high, in the Louisiade archipelago. 



Bonvouloir, a group in the Louisiade archipelago seen b^- D'Entrecasteaux. It ex- 

 tends in a slight curve about 20 m. xw-SE. Inhabitants are Papuans. East islet 

 is 500 ft., Hastings 10 m. to wxw. is 400 ft. high. Five miles beyond there are 

 3-4 islets on the same reef. Centre 10° 20' s., 151" 56' E. Bonvouloir was an 

 oificer on the Rciiicrclic. 



Booby, a bare, uninhabited rock 35 ft. high in Torres strait. 10° 36'o5"s., 141° 5445" E. 



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