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21 unusual facts about New Caledonia


Bertrand Kaï

He made his debut for New Caledonia on 14 June 2008 in the 0-0 draw with Vanuatu.

Kaï was called up to New Caledonia's squad for the 2011 Pacific Games.

Economy of New Caledonia

The Goro Nickel Plant is expected to be one of the largest nickel producing plants on Earth.

Eric Gross

Following professional engagements in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and New Caledonia, he settled in Sydney in 1958.

Georges Gope-Fenepej

Georges Gope-Fenepej (born 23 October 1988) is a New Caledonian footballer who plays as a striker for Troyes AC and the New Caledonia national team.

Jacques Haeko

He has represented New Caledonia at the senior level.

Jean-Patrick Wakanumuné

Jean-Patrick Wakanumuné (born 13 March 1980) in New Caledonia is a footballer who plays as a Defender.

John Gope-Fenepej

He is the brother New Caledonian international footballer Georges Gope-Fenepej.

L'Avenir Ensemble

Gomès became President of the loyalist stronghold, the South Province.

Matignon Agreements

The Matignon Agreements of 1988, an agreement for increased New Caledonian territorial autonomy between the French government, Kanak independence activists and French settlers.

Men's Rugby sevens at the 2011 Pacific Games

The 2011 Pacific Games men's rugby sevens tournament was held in New Caledonia from 31 August to 2 September 2011 in Nouméa.

Nathaniel Lepani

These eight caps remained Lepani's only appearances for the national team until he was called up for the men's football tournament at the 2011 Pacific Games in New Caledonia.

Nathaniel played for Papua New Guinea U-20 in the 2001 OFC U-20 Championship held in the Cook Islands and New Caledonia.

Pierre Fourmanoir

Pierre Fourmanoir (1924–2007) was a French ichthyologist working mainly in New Caledonia.

Pierre Wajoka

He also participated in the 2003 South Pacific Games, where New Caledonia won their group and reached the final of the competition, but were defeated by Fiji.

Roy Kayara

Roy Kayara (born 2 May 1990) is a New Caledonian footballer who plays as a midfielder for AS Magenta in New Caledonia Division Honneur.

The Rally–UMP

However, the RPCR became the largest party in the New Caledonia and regained first place in the South Province.

Future Together won 22.69% and 16 seats, but it won more votes than the RPCR in the loyalist stronghold of South Province.

Women's Football at the 2011 Pacific Games

The competition was held in New Caledonia from 27 August to 9 September 2011 with the final played at the Stade Numa-Daly in Nouméa.

Women's Rugby sevens at the 2011 Pacific Games

The 2011 Pacific Games women's rugby sevens tournament was held in New Caledonia from 31 August to 2 September 2011 in Nouméa.

Yohann Mercier

Yohann Laurent Mercier (born December 15, 1980) is a footballer from New Caledonia.


Amblyeleotris rubrimarginata

Amblyeleotris rubrimarginata is a species of goby found on reefs or in sea grass beds in the western Pacific from New Caledonia to the Great Barrier Reef and around New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.

Cantharidus

This genus is composed of marine species with a wide distribution, occurring off Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, French Polynesia, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Oceania, East India, Africa.

Charles Kerry

From 1913 he made a photographic tour of the Pacific, visiting Tonga, New Caledonia, Fiji, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Samoa.

Common galaxias

Common galaxias are one of the most widely distributed freshwater fish in the world and can be found around throughout New Zealand; in coastal streams in south eastern Australia, Tasmania and some parts of south west Western Australia; in Chile (From 35°S to 55S°), Patagonia, Argentina; in the Falkland Islands; and, in some Pacific Islands such as New Caledonia.

Deepwater stingray

Records of the deepwater stingray come from a number of locations scattered widely in the Indo-Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and Mozambique, the Gulf of Mannar, the northern Andaman Islands, the South China Sea, the Ryukyu Islands and the Kyushu-Palau Ridge, northwestern Australia from the Rowley Shoals to Shark Bay, northeastern Australia from Townsville to Wooli, New Caledonia, and Hawaii.

Ghost Ranch

Ghost Ranch was once part of the Chinle Formation, and the New Blood episode of Walking with Dinosaurs was set there, although the filming location was New Caledonia.

Great Frigatebird

In the Central and South Pacific, colonies are found on most islands Groups from Wake Island to the Galapagos Islands to New Caledonia with a few pairs nesting on Australian possessions in the Coral Sea.

Groupes d'Intervention de la Police Nationale

The DCSP has competency in 75 departments and within the territorial services of 7 large provincial towns (Lille, Strasbourg, Lyon, Nice, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Rennes) and overseas (La Réunion, New Caledonia and Antilles- French Guiana).

Guam at the 2011 Pacific Games

Guam competed at the 2011 Pacific Games in Nouméa, New Caledonia between August 27 and September 10, 2011, finishing 14th, with 6 silver and 5 bronze medals.

Heterocyclus perroquini

This species is endemic to New Caledonia.

Japanese snapper

Paracaesio caerulea, the Japanese snapper, is a species of snapper native to the Western Pacific Ocean where it is known to occur in the waters around southern Japan, Taiwan and the Chesterfield Islands of New Caledonia.

José Bové

Bové has also intervened to support the movements of the Tahitians and the Kanaks, the indigenous Melanesian people of New Caledonia.

Laura Tanguy

On January 6, 2008, the President of the Miss France committee proclaimed Laura Tanguy, second runner-up of Valérie Bègue, as the successor of the latter, a mandate to represent France in competitions beauties Miss World and Miss Universe, and that accompany Geneviève de Fontenay to galas regional elections (first runner-up, Miss New Caledonia, did not wish to hold the post for reasons relating to her studies).

Leopard moray eel

The Leopard moray eel is widespread throughout the Indo-Pacific oceans from Réunion to the Hawaiian, Line and Society Islands, north to southern Japan, southern Korea, and south to New Caledonia.

Longhead catshark

Records of the longhead catshark are patchy and widely spread in the Indo-Pacific region: it is known from the East China Sea, southern Japan, the Seychelles, the Philippines, Mozambique, New Caledonia, and northern Australia off Townsville, Ashmore Reef, and North West Cape.

Lyncina ventriculus

This species is distributed in the eastern Indian Ocean (Malaysia, Estern Indonesia, Cocos Islands and Christmas Island), in the Central and Western Pacific Ocean (South China Sea, Taiwan, Philippines, Samar Island, Guam, Melanesia, Solomon Islands, Micronesia, New Caledonia, eastern Polynesia, Tahiti and Hawaii).

Michel-Marie-Bernard Calvet

Michel-Marie-Bernard Calvet S.M. (born April 3, 1944 in Autun, France) is the French-born New Caledonian Archbishop.

Mickael Turtle

Mickael Turtle (a.k.a. Mickael the Turtle) from New Caledonia (France) is a fictional turtle who hit the French music charts with a reworking of the Ghostbusters theme.

Papilio amynthor

The Norfolk Swallowtail (Papilio amynthor) is a butterfly of the Papilionidae family, that is found in New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands and Norfolk Island.

Peachgrove Intermediate

Students enjoy annual opportunities for international travel to such destinations as Fiji, Rarotonga, New Caledonia and Japan.

Pteridium esculentum

It is found in all states of Australia apart from the Northern Territory, as well as New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Malaysia, Polynesia, and New Caledonia.

Pyrophyte

Niaouli (Melaleuca quinquenervia) which is extending in areas where bush fires are a mode of clearing (e.g. New Caledonia).

Sept-Fons Abbey

Its earlier foundations included Notre-Dame de la Consolation near Beijing, China, Notre-Dame des Iles, New Caledonia, Notre-Dame de Sept-Douleurs at Latroun in modern-day Israel, and Notre-Dame de Maristella Estado de São Paulo, Brazil.

The Proud and Profane

In Noumea, New Caledonia 1943, Lee Ashley (Kerr), the widow of a Paramarine Lieutenant killed on the Battle of Bloody Ridge on Guadalcanal has joined the American Red Cross on the island to entertain American servicemen.

Tintinnid

Many species appear to have wide distributions (for example from the Chesapeake Bay to New Caledonia) while others are restricted to certain areas, such as arctic waters or coastal seas.

William Grant Milne

Milne, the discoverer of several plants, including the rare New Caledonian tree Meryta denhamii which he found growing on the Isle of Pines in 1853 and sent to the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, had botanist Berthold Carl Seemann name the plant Meryta denhamii after Captain Denham (for whom the town of Denham, Western Australia was also named).

Xenoconger fryeri

Xenoconger fryeri is an eel of the family Chlopsidae which inhabits tropical waters around Assumption Island and Aldabra in the Indian Ocean and New Caledonia, Palau, Fiji and Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.