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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.
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. Nouméa (French pronunciation: [numea] ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of the French special collectivity of New Caledonia and is also the largest francophone city in Oceania.
The archipelago is located east of Australia, north of New Zealand, south of the Equator, and just west of Fiji and Vanuatu. New Caledonia comprises a main island, Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, and several smaller islands. Approximately half the size of Taiwan, the group has a land area of 18,575.5 square kilometres (7,172.0 square miles).
unc.nc /en /. The University of New Caledonia UNC (Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie) is a French university which is part of the Academy of New Caledonia located in Nouméa and Koné. The university goes back to 1987 when the Université Française du Pacifique (French University of the Pacific) was created, with two centres, one in French ...
v. t. e. An independence referendum was held in New Caledonia, a French territory in the South Pacific, on 12 December 2021. The vote was the third and final one to be held under the terms of the Nouméa Accord, following votes in 2018 and 2020. As a result of the referendum taking place amid a boycott from the independence parties, the results ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to New Caledonia: New Caledonia [1] – " sui generis collectivity" (in practice an overseas territory) of France, comprising a main island (Grande Terre), the Loyalty Islands, and several smaller islands. [2] It is located in the region of Melanesia in the southwest Pacific.
New Caledonia or Territoire des Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependances, is approximately 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) off the northeast coast of Australia. [4] [5] Of its 500 islands, the five main ones are inhabited, are spread across an area 30 miles (48 km) wide and over 250 miles (400 km) in length.
Geology of New Caledonia. 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 ]