132 INDEX TO THE PACIFIC ISIANDS. 



Piper, a group on the Australian coast. 12° 15' S., 143° 14' E. 



Pipoa, on the Australian coast. 14° 07' S., 144° 32' E. 



Piron or Yeina is 11 m. northwest of Tagula in the Louisiade archipelago. Inhab- 

 itants warlike. 



Pise or Pis, islet of Ruk, Caroline islands. 7° 42' 30" N., 151° 46' E. 



Pisonia, one of the Wellesley group in the Gulf of Carpentaria, northeast from Morn- 

 ington. 16° 30' S., 139° 32' 30" E. 



Pitcairn was discovered by Carteret July 2, 1767. Supposed by some to be the Encar- 

 nacion of Quiros; 2.2 m. E-w., i m. wide, 1000 ft. high. Named for a relative of 

 the Major Pitcairn who fired the first shot in the American revolution. Most in- 

 terest attaches to this island from the mutiny of the BoiDitv in 1789. These mu- 

 tineers were not the first inhabitants, however, for skeletons buried with stone 

 adzes and a pearl shell not found now on the island, have been unearthed in several 

 places. British protedlorate proclaimed August iS, 189S. Adamstown is, accord- 

 ing to Beechey, in 25° 03' 37" s., 130° 08' 23" w. 



Pitt, a small, low, wooded island on the New Guinea coast. 10° 35'2o"s., i5i°02'5o"e. 



Pitt, see Makin of the Gilbert islands. 



Pitt, see Rangiauria, one of the Chatham islands. 



Pi^aras, islet of Namonuito, Caroline islands. 8° 34' 20" N., 150° 32' 30" E. 4. 



Platform, islet in midst of reefs, Admiraltv group. 2 44' s., 147° 03' E. 



Pleasant, see Nawodo of the Gilbert islands. 



Pleiades, a group northwest from Ilea, Loyalty islands. They are, beginning at the 

 northeast end, North, Isenay or La Baleine, La Tortue, Fatouba, Hueguenee or 

 Pine, Oidi, Deguala. 



Poanopa, a way of spelling Bonabe. 



Pollard Rock, a name of Gardner of the Hawaiian islands. 



Pole, in Torres strait. 10° 12' S., 142° 28' E. 



Poll, of the Three Sisters group in Torres strait. 10° 15' S., 142° 49' E. 



Poloa, islet of Tongatabu on the northwest. 20° 05' 30" s., 175° 14' 30" w. 18. 



Poloat or Enderb^^ of the Caroline islands. In 1799 Ibargoitia discovered an island 

 which he called Kata. Freycinet found it was two distinct islands, one of which 

 he called Alet, the other Poloat or Pozoat. The_v are on a reef 6 m. E-w. Popula- 

 tion about 100. 7° 19' 25" N., 149° 15' E. The group is usually called Enderby, 

 a name given by Captain Renneck in 1826 in honor of his emploj-ers, London 

 merchants. 



Pomodedere, in Cloudy bay on the New Guinea coast. 10° 17' s., 148° 46' E. 



Pompom, islet off the south coast of Murua in the Kiriwiua group. 9°o7's., i52°3i'e. 



Ponafidin, one of the Bonin islands. 



Ponape or Ascension was discovered by Liitke January 2, 1S28; 12 m. N-s., 14.5 m. 

 E-w.; 2861 ft. high; coral reef 60 m. in circumference, on which are many basaltic 

 rocks or islets. Metalanien harbor, which is in 6' 51' N., 158° 18' E., has on the 

 shores very interesting ruins ( see Geographical Joitnial, iSgg, p. 105 ; also, la Isla 

 de Ponape, by Pereiro, 1895; both give maps of these ruins which were first 

 noticed b}^ Dr. L. H. Gulick of the American mission). Ponape is the largest and 



most important of the Caroline islands. Fanua pei = Land of the holy places. 5. 



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