44 INDEX TO THE PACIFIC I STANDS. 



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Bau, see Mbau, Fiji. 



Baudissin, is at the northwest end of New Ireland, Bismarck archipelago, and ex- 

 tends 7 m. E-w. 2° 46' s., 150 40' E. 



Banro, see San Cristobal, Solomon islands. 11. 



Baux, see Nukuhiva, Marquesas group. 23. 



Bavo, islet 3 m. E. from Idiha on the Southeast coast of New Guinea. 



Baxo trista, islet on southeast end of Oraluk reef, Caroline group, 50 ft. high. 

 7° 27' N., 155° 24' E. 4. 



Bayonnaise, islet at south entrance to Kuto bay, Isle of Pines. Named from French 

 ship. 



Beacon, islet of Australia. 12° 48' s., 143" 36' E. 



Beagle, islet of Guadalcanar, Solomon islands. II. '7?3 ? 



Beatipre, or Eo of the Loyalty group, northwest of Uea, was discovered in 1782 by 

 D'Entrecasteaux. Covered with coconut trees; inhabited. 20° 20' S. Named for 

 the Geographical Engineer of the Recherche. %■ ' fo-*~fw- 



Beautiful, a group in the Gulf of Carpentaria, north coast of Australia. 



Bedford, see Vehanga of the Adlseon group. 22. 



Bee, on the south shore of Huon gulf. 7" 30' s., 147° 27' E. 



Beechey, islands of the Bonin group. 27° 08' n., 142° 15' E. Annexed by Japan. 



Beika, on the southeast coast of New Guinea, east of Sariba; 130 ft. high; densely 

 wooded. 



Belcher = Taravai, islet of Mangareva. 



Belep, five islets and a number of rocks northwest from New Caledonia. 13. 



Bellevue, group on the coast of New Guinea. Jervis island is the principal. 9°56's., 

 142" 09' E. 



Bellingshausen, Society group, was discovered by Kotzebue in 1824. It is low 

 and uninhabited. Named for the distinguished Russian navigator. 15° 48' S., 

 154 30' w. 20. 



Bellona, of the Solomon group, was discovered by Captain Wilkinson in the Indis- 

 poisahh, 1790. It is small, 400 ft. high, and uninhabited. August 18, 1898, it 

 was declared a part of the British Solomon islands Protectorate. n° 25' S., 



159° 45' E. II. 

 Bentinck, one of the Wellesley group in the gulf of Carpentaria. 

 Bentley, see Anagusa, Louisiade archipelago. 

 Bega, see Mbenga of Fiji. 1 

 Berriberrije, or Slade, Louisiade archipelago, is the northwest and most conspicuous 



of the Engineer group, 1.7 m. xw-SE., half a mile wide, 596 ft. high. io° 37' S., 



1 51° 16' E. 

 Bertrand, on the north coast of New Guinea. 3° n's., 143° 10' E. Low and wooded, 



near Schouten. 



Berry, islet 60 ft. high, of the St. Andrew group, Admiralty islands. 



Berud, seeKuria of the Gilbert islands. 



Bet, see Burrar in Torres strait. 



Beverley, a group off the east coast of Queensland, Australia. 21° 30' S., 149° 45' E. 



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