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Pari, two islands off the northeast coast of Guadalcanal - , Solomon islands. 9°43'3o"s., 

 160° 46' E. Pari pile is smaller than Pari sule, which is about 1 m. E-w. by half a mile. 



Parivara, see Varivara, New Guinea. 



Pariwara, two islets near Redscar bay, New Guinea. 



Parry, a small group of the Bonin islands. 27° 40' N., 142° 14' E. 



Parry, islet of'Eniwetok, Marshall islands. ii° 21' N., 162° 25' E. 



Parry, see Mauki of the Hervey islands. 



Parseval is at the entrance to Port St. Vincent, New Caledonia. 



Parum or Parram, islet of Ponape, Caroline islands. 



Pass, see Anchorage, Suvaroff group. 



Passage, in Choiseul bay, Solomon islands. 



Passage, see Ovalu, Fiji. 



Passage, see Yatu i thake, Fiji. 



Patik, islet of Ponape, Caroline islands. 



Patrocinio or Byer, of the Hawaiian group, was discovered by Captain Zipiani, of the 

 Spanish ship Nuestra Seilora del Pilar in 1799; 3 m. long, volcanic. Called Byer 

 by Captain Morrell, July, 1825. Place doubtful. 28° 30' n., 177 18' E. It has 

 been expunged from the British Admiralty charts on perhaps insufficient grounds. 



Patimotu, Tuamotu or Low archipelago. Coral atolls extending over sixteen degrees 

 of longitude. The native name means "Cloud (or bunch) of islands." Quiros, in 

 1606, saw several islands of the group, but these cannot now be determined so 

 great is the similarity among all these islands. Many of the great navigators ob- 

 served several islands, but Wilkes (1841) gave more accurate details, and to his 

 surveys the modern charts are chiefly indebted. The inhabitants vary from the 

 Vitian to the Tahitian type. There are 78 atolls each numbering many islets; 18 

 atolls are inhabited, the population being estimated at 8000, nearly all of them 

 Protestants. Flies are very troublesome. Principal exports, copra and pearl shell, 

 in the hands of American and British merchants of Tahiti. France took the 

 archipelago in 1844 and the French Resident is stationed on Fakarava. The de- 

 tached islands to the southeast, Ducie, Henderson, Pitcairn and Oeno are British 

 possessions. From the structure of the atolls their form is continually changing, 

 and occasionally in severe storms the sea breaks over them destroying the inhabi. 

 tants and making radical changes in the geography. 20, 31, 22. 



Pavuvu, see Russell, Solomon islands. 



Peacock, see Ahii of the Paumotu archipelago. 20. 



Peak, see Panabahai of the Louisiade archipelago. 



Peard, a name of Mangareva or Gambier. 2,2,. 



Pearl and Hermes reef, Hawaiian islands. Discovered in 1822 by two whalers, 

 Pearl and Hermes wrecked near the eastern end on the same night, within ten 

 miles of each other. An atoll extending E-w. 16 m., n-S. 9 m., or 40 m. in circum- 

 ference, with 12 islets, the southeast one in 27° 47' 50" n., 175 51' w. 2. 



Peddlar, see Arno, Marshall islands. 



Peel, one of the Coffin group, Bonin islands. 27° 08' n., 142° 15' E. 



Pegan, St. David, Freewill or Onata. Reported by ship Warwick in 1761. Atoll 14 m. 

 N-S., with 4 low islets; inhabited. Under the Dutch flag. o° 57' n., 134 21' E. 



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