72 INDEX TO THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. 



v Grandes Cyclades, 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. 10" 32' 45" S., 151° 02' 50" E. 

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

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

 Green, islet of the south coast of Admiralty. The Groene Eylanden of Tasman. 



2° 15' s., 147° 05' E. 

 Green, islet on northeast coast of Auckland. 



Green, one of the low Tiri islands of Yanua levu, Fiji. 16° 24' 14" s., i79°o5'27"E.O 

 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 bay, New Britain. 

 Green, islet in Port Preslin, New Ireland. 

 Green, east of New Ireland, 300 ft. high, densely 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; 150 inhabitants. i° 04' n., 



154 45' '•'■• 



Greig, see Niau, in the Paumotn archipelago. 

 'Grenville, a name of Rotuma. 



Gressien, see Muschn in the New Guinea region. 



Griesbaeh, 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 1841. 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" x., 151 53' 50" E. 



Guadalcanar, the Guadalcanal of Gallego and Mendana 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 g" 15' S., 159° 40' E.; east point, 

 9°5o's., 160 47' e. 11. 



Guadaloupe (Islade), in the Solomon islands. Discovered in April, 1568, by Men- 

 dana'. s expedition in latitude 9 30' s. 

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



Gualito, see Ngualito, Fiji. 



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

 iards founded a mission under the direction 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. As a result of the 



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