Santal Bay

Santal Bay cuts into the western coast of Lifou, the largest of the Loyalty Islands. Between its headlands the seabed slopes steeply down from a narrow coral-fringed margin. Lifou is the home of Drehu speakers, whose language belongs to the Loyalty Islands group. In 1793 the merchant ship Britannia, under William Raven, mapped Lifou and other islands of the group during a voyage towards Batavia.