The
Loyalty Islands are an
archipelago in the
Pacific. They are part of the
French territory of
New Caledonia, whose mainland is away. They form the
Loyalty Islands Province (
province des îles Loyauté), one of the three provinces of New Caledonia. It has 17,000 people living on almost 2,000 km
2. The native inhabitants are the
Kanak people and the Tavu'avua' people.