New Caledonia
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New Caledonia (Fr. Nouvelle-Caledonia), France’s largest overseas territory. The capital is Nouméa. New Caledonia has 208,000 inhabitants. The archipelago is responsible for 40% of world nickel production. The country’s original inhabitants, “kanakkerne”, came to the island about 4000 years BC Their name for the island is Kanaky. Spanish sailors reached the archipelago in 1500 – and 1600′s, but it was James Cook who first named it in 1774. Between 1853 and 1897 used New Caledonia by France as a penal colony. At the end of the 1800s owned over 90% of arable land by French colonists. Caledonians would be independent and in 1970 there were violent riots in Caledonia, but Caledonia has now accepted the French government.
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