1. LOYALTY ISLANDS SURVEY 1938 BY L. MACMILLAN UVEA ISLAND SUMMARY LOYALTY GROUP W. PACIFIC BRIEF GEOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION Uvea Island, the most westerly inhabited Island of the Loyalty Group is a long thin partial formed atoll formation Island. The mainland, including the almost joined largest Island of the atollic chain of Island called Mouli (which being close & identical with the mainland can be treated as part of it) is about 20 miles long by varying widths of from 5 miles to 1 mile in a narrow portion near its centre. Roughly it lies between 20° 24' to 20° 41' north latitude and 166° 28' to 166° 40'. East of Greenwich, by no means filling the full area between those positions. It is truly an atoll but the western portion is still in an early stage and not completely formed. The Island lies roughly 53 miles from the NE coast of the New Caledonian mainland at a point a little south of midway along that litoral. It is a French colonial possession, as are all the Loyalty group, and is administred from Noumea, the headquarters of France in the W. Pacific, on the Mainland of New Caledonia, and about 120 miles away by boat. A more or less regular six weekly interisland service being maintained by 100 ton vessel. A local resident policeman of the regular French military police being in residence on the island acting as a Resident Commissioner. The native residents number a little over two thousand (2048 in 1934) and whites in residence number about 8, including