new caledonia in English

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an island in the South Pacific, east of Australia; population 227,400 (est. 2009); capital, Nouméa. Since 1946 it has formed, with its dependencies, a French overseas territory.

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1. In 1946, New Caledonia became an overseas territory.

2. – New Caledonia pine : Species: Araucaria cunninghamii Aiton ex D

3. It is an accessory mineral associated with nickel laterite deposits in New Caledonia.

4. Today, all banknotes are strictly identical from New Caledonia to French Polynesia.

5. 1853 – Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.

6. New Caledonia is part of Zealandia, a fragment of the ancient Gondwana super-continent.

7. Recent Brachiopoda from the Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia, with description of four new species

8. The world's largest extant species of fern, Cyathea intermedia, also is endemic to New Caledonia.

9. Infrequently, she also left the Solomons area to visit New Caledonia, either escorting ships there or for availability.

10. New Caledonia was annexed to France in 1853, and became an overseas territory of France in 1956.

11. The Crested gecko or eyelash gecko (Correlophus ciliatus) is a species of gecko native to southern New Caledonia

12. Magazines are well received in the rest of the territory assigned to the branch in New Caledonia.

13. There are 11 endemic fish species and 14 endemic species of decapod crustaceans in the rivers and lakes of New Caledonia.

14. FLNKS "organized a boycott of the territorial elections in New Caledonia, smashing ballot boxes and setting up roadblocks to prevent people from voting."

15. After the occupation of the Russells, Sands continued to carry troops and supplies and to escort convoys in the New Caledonia-New Hebrides-Solomons area.

16. Operating out of Nouméa, New Caledonia, she served during the months in late 1942 during the protracted struggle for control of Guadalcanal.

17. In a position to intercept enemy surface units which attempted to attack Port Moresby, Chicago also provided cover for the arrival of American troops on New Caledonia.

18. A Bushfire is a wildfire that occurs in the bush (collective term for forest, scrub, woodland or grassland of Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia)

19. As of 2009, the Melanesian Kanak people constituted 40.3% (99,078) of the population of 245,580 in New Caledonia, a minority in their ancestral land.

20. The Armed Forces of New Caledonia (French: Forces armées de Nouvelle-Calédonie) FANC, include about 2,000 soldiers, mainly deployed in Koumac, Nandaï, Tontouta, Plum, and Nouméa.

21. Conspicuous Angelfish, the Conspicuous Angelfish occurs from the southern Great Barrier Reef to the central New South Wales coast and from New Caledonia, Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands

22. Gazetteer Western Pacific: Moluccas and Philippines to Timor, north to the Mariana Islands, south to Rowley Shoals and New Caledonia; throughout Micronesia. Range extends to Pitcairn (Ref. 97.

23. In 2011, exports of goods and services from New Caledonia amounted to 2.11 billion US dollars, 75.6% of which were mineral products and alloys (mainly nickel ore and ferronickel).

24. The flora of Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia is tropical dry forest, with tropical vegetation that includes palm trees, premna protrusa, psydrax odorata, gyrocarpus americanus and derris trifoliata.

25. Three examples of this particular carbonate cement have been discovered in two distinct areas: in New Caledonia, small‐scale mamelons have been recognized within Pleistocene reefal terraces at Ouvea, an Island of the Loyalty archipelago, and in the Red Sea, large‐scale mamelons of Botryoidal