Beautemps Beaupre Atoll

Beautemps-Beaupré is a low coral atoll northwest of Ouvéa in the Loyalty Islands. Its islets and reef enclose a lagoon, standing apart from the raised limestone islands farther southeast. The atoll takes its European name from Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré, a hydrographer on Bruny d’Entrecasteaux’s expedition, which passed through these waters in the 1790s.