or MASSACRE ISLAND, one of the Navigators' Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, discovered by Bougainville, and visited by La Pérouse, with whose men and the natives a bloody conflict took place, in which M. Langle, commander of the Astrolabe, with ten of his companions, were killed, and twenty men wounded. Long. of the anchoring place, 189. 1. E. Lat. 14. 22. S.