Vive in a Different France: New Caledonia Part 4
August 4th 2006 05:00
Bonjour tout le monde!
New Caledonia is made up of a series of islands, located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, about 1200 kilometres east of Australia and 1500 northwest of our Tasman neighbour, New Zealand.
New Caledonia from space (picture was taken by NASA, but is in the public domain. It can be found at wikipedia.org)
The country’s main island is called la Grand Terre (the Big Land), the Belep archipelago can be found to the north of La Grand Terre, the Loyalty Islands are to the east, Île des Pins (The Island of Pines) is to the south and the Bellona Reefs and Chesterfield Islands are to the west.
La Grand Terre is the only mountainous island of New Caledonia. The mountain range runs through the island’s centre with 5 peaks.
New Caledonia is a tropical country and can be found sitting across the Tropic of Capricorn. Because of this, the country does get a lot of rainfall, but it is all seasonal. Most of the rain occurs between December and March, which also coincides with cyclone season. (Best to probably avoid this time of year.) It can be cool and windy from June to September, but the sea temperature is still warm enough for swimming all year round. Apart from that, New Caledonia has a pleasant climate similar to that of southern France.
I’ll continue exploring this beautiful country next week.
À lundi
Until Monday
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