A work by Renzo Piano in Noumea, New Caledonia

In New Caledonia, just 10 minutes by car from the center of Nouméa, on the Tina Peninsula, there is the futuristic Tjibaou Cultural Center, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, it is an architectural project that combines Kanak traditions ...

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Maré: the island with beautiful and wild beaches

Maré (641 km²; 5,648 inhabitants) is the southernmost island of the archipelago of the islands of Loyalty. The island is also – like the other islands in the archipelago – a raised coral atoll and is also the highest island ...

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Lifou: a raised coral atoll with beautiful beaches

Lifou (1,207 km²; 9,275 inhabitants) is the largest and most populated island in the archipelago of the islands of Loyalty, it is a raised coral atoll, where the internal lagoon has dried up due to the rise of the island. ...

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Ouvea: a coral atoll and a long beach

Ouvea (132 km²; 3,374 inhabitants (2014)) is the northernmost island of the archipelago of the Loyalty Islands. The island is therefore the warmest of all even in the local winter. Ouvea is made up of two main islands, Ouvea and ...

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New Caledonia power plugs and sockets, telephones

NEW CALEDONIA: DOCUMENTS All visitors to New Caledonia must be in possession of a passport valid for at least 6 months following the scheduled return date. The visa, for citizens of the European Union, is not necessary if you are ...

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What to see on the Isle of Pines in New Caledonia

The Isle of Pines is the main tourist destination in New Caledonia. The island is renowned for its beautiful white sand beaches overlooking turquoise bays adorned with the characteristic columnar pines (Araucaria columnaris), which make the beauty of this island ...

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Huahine: ancient Polynesian temples and crops

Huahine Island is part of the Society Islands, and is the first of the Leeward group of islands which is encountered from Tahiti and Moorea. Huahine is located 175 km northwest of Tahiti. The island is made up of two ...

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Raiatea: the sacred island of French Polynesia

Raiatea is the second largest island of the Society Islands archipelago. The capital is the town of Uturoa, which is also the administrative center of the Leeward Islands (Îles sous le Vent). This town is located in the northern part ...

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Society Islands: the prototype of the South Sea islands

The archipelago of the Society islands is the most important from the economic and demographic point of view of French Polynesia, it is divided into the Windward Islands (Îles du Vent) and Leeward Islands (Îles Sous-le-Vent). These islands are located ...

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Ahe Atoll: the atoll of the pearl oysters

Ahe is an atoll in the archipelago of the Tuamotu islands, which measures 23.5 km in length and 12.2 km in width, inside which a 138 km² lagoon is enclosed. The island has a single passage to the ocean located ...

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Tuamotu islands: the islands of the atolls

The archipelago of the Tuamotu islands is the largest in French Polynesia, it in fact extends between 14 ° and 24 ° south latitude and 134 ° and 150 ° west longitude, on an area of the Pacific ocean as ...

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Rimatara: the westernmost of the Austral archipelago

Rimatara is the westernmost of the inhabited islands of the archipelago of the Austral islands. In fact, the island is located west of Rurutu just north of the tropic of Capricorn. Rimatara which measures only 8.6 km² is a circular ...

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Rapa: the most remote island in French Polynesia

The island of Rapa (40 km²) is what remains of a large volcano that currently reaches a height of 650 meters above sea level. This island is the most remote inhabited island of French Polynesia. In fact, it is located ...

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Raivavae: the Bora Bora of the Austral islands

Raivavae is a small island of about 16 sq km inhabited by about nine hundred inhabitants (2017 census) which is known as the Bora Bora of the Austral islands. Mountainous island located 730 km south-east of Tahiti, it is also, ...

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Tubuai: the first stop of the mutineers of the Bounty

Tubuai is an island that measures 45 sq km and has about two thousand inhabitants. This island represents the administrative center of the archipelago of the Austral islands. The island is located 640 km south of Tahiti, between the islands ...

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