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Fig.1 A simplified geological map of New Caledonia with a cross-section, modified by Xu and Liu (2019) [1] The geology of New Caledonia includes all major rock types (igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic), which here range in age from ~290 million years old (Ma) to recent. [2] Their formation is driven by alternate plate collisions and rifting ...
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 ...
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Surrounding the island and especially to the north-west is the New Caledonian barrier reef. The island is located roughly 1,300 kilometres (810 mi; 700 nmi) east of Australia. [ 4 ] Grande Terre is oriented northwest-to-southeast; its area is 16,372 square kilometres (6,321 square miles).
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The New Caledonia Trough is an ocean floor feature that extends 2,300 km (1,400 mi) from the north of the island of Grande Terre of New Caledonia, to the coast off the Taranaki region of the North Island of New Zealand. Its southern portion includes the Taranaki Basin which has demonstrated oil reserves.
1 New Caledonia Land Register (DITTT) data, which exclude lakes and ponds larger than 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) as well as the estuaries of rivers. Païta ( French pronunciation: [pajta] ) is a commune in the suburbs of Nouméa in the South Province of New Caledonia , an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean .