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The forces number 1750 from the 3 branches of the armed forces (excluding the Gendarmerie) of which 1200 are permanent. [1]Insignia of the Pacific Marine Infantry Regiment of New Caledonia (RIMAP NC) Order of battle of the Pacific Marine Infantry Regiment
Thierry Valet and Jean-Claude Legras, two members of Congress from Une Nouvelle-Calédonie pour tous (UNCT, an organisation created by dissidents from RPCR that subsequently became the principal opposition to Jacques Lafleur within the anti-independence camp) who put themselves at odds with the official position of their movement (for them, the ...
An independence referendum was held in New Caledonia, a French territory in the South Pacific, on 12 December 2021.The vote was the third and final one to be held under the terms of the Nouméa Accord, following votes in 2018 and 2020.
An independence referendum was held in New Caledonia on 4 October 2020. The poll was the second to be held under the terms of the Nouméa Accord, following a similar referendum in 2018.
The University of New Caledonia UNC (Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie) is a French university which is part of the Academy of New Caledonia located in Nouméa and Koné. The university goes back to 1987 when the Université Française du Pacifique (French University of the Pacific) was created, with two centres, one in French Polynesia and ...
New Caledonia's main tertiary education institution is the University of New Caledonia (Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie), which was founded in 1993 and comes under the supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. It is based in Nouméa and offers a range of vocational, Bachelor, MA, and PhD programs and courses.
There are many theories on the origin of the term "Caldoche". The most widespread story, as told by the collective lexicon 1001 Caledonian Words, attributes the term to local journalist and polemicist Jacqueline Schmidt, who participated actively towards the end of the 1960s in the debate concerning the Billotte laws (in particular the first law, which transferred mining responsibilities in ...
A former Air Calédonie ATR 42-500. The increase in traffic led to fleet renewal as of 1968. The company chose twin turboprops as these aircraft were larger, more modern, and reliable. In 1968, the de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter was the first turbine-powered aircraft to arrive in Air Calédonie's fleet. It was a 19-seater and was equipped ...