the name of several islands in the Eastern Seas and in the Pacific Ocean. 1. There are two islands of this name which form part of the group of the Andamanans, thirty miles south-east of the Great Andaman: 2. Two small islands near the west coast of Sumatra: 3. A cluster of small uninhabited islands in the Bay of Bengal, about the fourteenth degree of north latitude, which produce large quantities of fine cocoa-nuts: 4. An island in the South Pacific Ocean, visited by Vancouver in his return from the western shores of America, about four miles long and two broad. Long. 273. 6. E. Lat. 5. 35. N.