|
|
Advertisements:
TransportationAirports World Ranking: 128
25 (2012)
Airports - with paved runways
Total 12
Over 3,047 m 1 914 to 1,523 m 10 Under 914 m 1 (2012) Airports - with unpaved runways
Total 13
914 to 1,523 m 5 Under 914 m 8 (2012) Heliports
8 (2012)
Roadways World Ranking: 151
Total 5,622 km (2006)
Merchant marine World Ranking: 137
Registered in other countries 3 (France 3) (2010)
Ports and terminals
Noumea
Comments
Add a new comment: |
Advertisement
Members area
New Caledonia [ France ] (Overseas Territory):
 
GPS points from New Caledonia [ France ] (Overseas Territory)
|
||||||||
Settled by both Britain and France during the first half of the 19th century, the island was made a French possession in 1853. It served as a penal colony for four decades after 1864. Agitation for independence during the 1980s and early 1990s ended in the 1998 Noumea Accord, which over a period of 15 to 20 years will transfer an increasing amount of governing responsibility from France to New Caledonia. The agreement also commits France to conduct a referendum between 2014 and 2018 to decide whether New Caledonia should assume full sovereignty and independence.