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6 unusual facts about Loyalty Islands


Émile Deplanche

Subsequently, he returned to New Caledonia with Vieillard, where in Noumea, the pair spit company, with Deplanche journeying to Lifou in the Loyalty Islands.

Endotricha propinqua

It was described by Whalley in 1963, and is known from New Hebrides, the Loyalty Islands, and New Caledonia.

Graphium gelon

Graphium gelon is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae, that is found in New Caledonia (the Loyalty Islands such as Lifou).

Kalaw Lagaw Ya

The Mission Spelling (established at first by Loyalty Islands missionaries in 1870s, then modified by Polynesian missionaries in the 1880s) : a, b, d, e, g, i, j, k, l, m, n, ng, o, ö, p, r, s, t, u, z, sometimes also th, dh, dth, tr, dr, oe, ë, w, y, j, and sometimes double vowels to show length.

Loyalty Islands

The first Western contact on record is attributed to the British Captain William Raven from the London trading ship Britannia, who in 1793 was on his way from Norfolk Island to Batavia.

Papilio amynthor

The Norfolk Swallowtail (Papilio amynthor) is a butterfly of the Papilionidae family, that is found in New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands and Norfolk Island.



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