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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.
An expandable bathymetric and topographic map of New Caledonia and Vanuatu, formerly the New Hebrides.Click to enlarge. New Caledonia is made up of a main island, the Grande Terre, and several smaller islands, the Belep archipelago to the north of the Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands to the east of the Grande Terre, the Isle of Pines to the south of the Grande Terre, the Chesterfield Islands ...
Nouméa city flag, 2011 Small scale map of the city. Nouméa (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of the French special collectivity of New Caledonia and is also the largest Francophone city in Oceania.
The location of New Caledonia An enlargeable map of New Caledonia. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to New Caledonia: . New Caledonia [1] – "sui generis collectivity" (in practice an overseas territory) of France, comprising a main island (Grande Terre), the Loyalty Islands, and several smaller islands. [2]
For a general map allowing to geo-locate the remote islands, see below. Français : Carte administrative vierge de la collectivité territoriale de Nouvelle-Calédonie , France , destinée à la géolocalisation.
1890 map. Melanesian people lived on the island for over 2000 years before the island was first visited by Europeans. Captain James Cook in 1774 saw the island and renamed it on his second voyage to New Zealand. Cook gave the island its name after seeing the tall native pines (Araucaria columnaris). He never disembarked onto the island, but as ...
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The largest settlement on Grande Terre is Nouméa, the capital city of New Caledonia.Locals refer to Grande Terre as "Le Caillou", the pebble. [3] The island has a fairly hot and humid climate, though varying as the south-east trade winds bring relatively cool air.