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All these islands lie among the Loyalty Islands, 190 kilometres (105 nautical miles) northeast of New Caledonia's mainland. At 1,146 km 2 (442 sq mi), Lifou Island is the largest atoll in the world. [4] The town of Wé, on Lifou Island, is the administrative centre of the commune of Lifou as well as the provincial seat of the Loyalty Islands ...
This is a list of airports in New Caledonia, sorted by location. New Caledonia (French: Nouvelle-Calédonie) is an overseas territory (territoire d'outre-mer or TOM) of France, made up of a main island (Grande Terre) and several smaller islands. It is located in the region of Melanesia in the southwest Pacific.
Lifou from space, November 1990. Irregular in shape, Lifou Island is 81 km (50 mi) long and 16 to 24 km (10 to 15 miles) wide. The island has no rivers, but has abundant vegetation, dense interior jungles, fertile soils, terraced cliffs and coral reefs. Lifou Island is a former coral atoll that was part of a
Lifou: Location: Lifou Island: Coordinates ... Location of airport in New Caledonia. Runways; Direction Length Surface m ft 12/30 1,250 4,101 Asphalt Statistics (2018)
Loyalty Islands Province (French: Province des îles Loyauté, pronounced [pʁɔvɛ̃s dez‿il lwajote]) is one of the three top-level administrative subdivisions of New Caledonia. It encompasses the Loyalty Islands (French: Îles Loyauté) archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, located northeast of the New Caledonian mainland of Grande Terre.
The country of New Caledonia comprises four archipelagos. The following is a breakdown of the islands of the country. ... New Caledonia: Nouméa: Koné, Lifou, ...
New Caledonia (/ ˌ k æ l ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / ⓘ KAL-ih-DOH-nee-ə; French: Nouvelle-Calédonie [nuvɛl kaledɔni] ⓘ) [nb 2] is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, 220 km (140 mi) southwest of Vanuatu and 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia. [5]
Lifou: 8,627 Loyalty Islands ... 3,945 North: Hamlets (Lieux-dits. The villages or hamlets (French: lieux-dits) of New Caledonia are ordered by ... Port Laguerre ...