New Caledonia

[kal-i-doh-nee-uh, -dohn-yuh]

noun

1. an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1,290 km) E of Australia. 6,224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).

2. an overseas territory of France comprising this island and other smaller islands: formerly a penal colony. 131,665; 7,200 sq. mi. (18,650 sq. km). Nouméa.

New Caledonia

noun

1. French name: Nouvelle-Calédonie. an island in the SW Pacific, east of Australia: forms, with its dependencies, a French Overseas Country; discovered by Captain Cook in 1774; rich mineral resources. Capital: Nouméa. Pop: 264 022 (2013 est). Area: 19 103 sq km (7374 miles)

Example Sentences

Around 1,700 police officers are already present in New Caledonia, where rioters have burned buildings, looted shops and set up road barricades, they added.

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Macron landed in New Caledonia early Thursday, looking for ways to end a crisis that has raised questions about France’s influence in the Indo-Pacific region.

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But as well as insisting on the need to bring down the deficit, he said the new government would need to agree on the future of France's South Pacific territory of New Caledonia.

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Later, a cyclone forced the brothers to abandon a plan to land in Brisbane and they were forced to take a detour around the remote New Caledonia archipelago to avoid the storm.

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New Caledonia is on the United Nation’s list of non-self-governing territories - countries the UN monitors in their progress towards independence.

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