New Caledonia

Also known as Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies, NC, FR-NC, NCL, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Kanaky

French special collectivity and archipelago in Oceania

AI overview

New Caledonia is a French territory in the South Pacific Ocean that consists of a group of islands and has a special political status within France. It matters because of its strategic location in the Pacific region and its significant nickel resources, which make it economically and geopolitically important.

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Research

2,905 papers

New Caledonia: A 'Hot Spot' for Valuable Chemodiversity. Part 1: Gymnosperms.ReviewChemistry & biodiversity · 2015Coulerie P, Poullain CDOI: 10.1002/cbdv.201400024
Marine Natural Products from New Caledonia--A Review.ReviewMarine drugs · 2016Motuhi SE, Mehiri M, Payri CE et al.DOI: 10.3390/md14030058
[Shark attacks in New Caledonia from 1958 to 2020: a review of cases].ReviewMedecine tropicale et sante internationale · 2022Maillaud C, Tirard P, Borsa P et al.DOI: 10.48327/mtsi.v2i1.2022.209
New Caledonia: A Hot Spot for Valuable Chemodiversity Part 3: Santalales, Caryophyllales, and Asterids.ReviewChemistry & biodiversity · 2016Coulerie P, Poullain CDOI: 10.1002/cbdv.201500101
Candidatus Mycoplasma haemohominis: Emerging Infection in New Caledonia.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Atkinson TPDOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1657
New Caledonia: A ' Hot Spot' for Valuable Chemodiversity: Part 2: Basal Angiosperms and Eudicot Rosids.ReviewChemistry & biodiversity · 2016Coulerie P, Poullain CDOI: 10.1002/cbdv.201400389
Genomic Epidemiology of Corynebacterium diphtheriae in New Caledonia.Microbiology spectrum · 2023Tessier E, Hennart M, Badell E et al.DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.04616-22
New Caledonia: a very old Darwinian island?ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2008Grandcolas P, Murienne J, Robillard T et al.DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0122

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Encyclopedic overview

New Caledonia is a French territory consisting of 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. Located 16,100 km (10,000 mi) from Metropolitan France, it forms a sui generis collectivity of the French Republic, having a unique legal status enshrined in a dedicated chapter of the French Constitution.

The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Chesterfield Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of Pines, and a few remote islets. The Chesterfield Islands are in the Coral Sea. French people, especially locals, call Grande Terre le Caillou, a nickname also used more generally for New Caledonia itself. Pro-independence Kanak parties use the name (la) Kanaky (pron. [(la) kanaki]) to refer to New Caledonia, a term coined in the 1980s from the ethnic name of the indigenous Melanesian Kanak people who make up 41% of New Caledonia's population. New Caledonia is associated with the European Union as an overseas country and territory (OCT).

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