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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A French overseas territory in the southwest Pacific Ocean consisting of the island of New Caledonia and several smaller islands. The island of New Caledonia was sighted and named by Capt. James Cook in 1774 and annexed by France in 1853. It was a penal colony from 1864 to 1922. Nouméa is the capital.
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- proper noun Overseas
territory ofFrance in Oceania. Official name: Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies. - proper noun historical A
district of the west coast of BritishNorth America traded by the Hudson's Bay Company. It became thecolony ofBritish Columbia in 1858. - proper noun historical A short-lived (1698-1700)
Scottish colony inPanama , aroundDarien (which was renamed New Edinburgh as its capital)
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- noun an island to the to the east of Australia and to the north of New Zealand
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LICHTMAN: Imagine you are a New Caledonian crow, which looks a lot like a regular crow, but you happen to live on the island of New Caledonia, which is pretty good.
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LICHTMAN: Imagine you are a New Caledonian crow, which looks a lot like a regular crow, but you happen to live on the island of New Caledonia, which is pretty good.
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LICHTMAN: Imagine you are a New Caledonian crow, which looks a lot like a regular crow, but you happen to live on the island of New Caledonia, which is pretty good.
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LICHTMAN: Imagine you are a New Caledonian crow, which looks a lot like a regular crow, but you happen to live on the island of New Caledonia, which is pretty good.
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The inhabitants of what was to be called New Caledonia were beset by flux and fever, by assaults from the Spanish, by shortage of provisions and by an English trade embargo.
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Funding conservation work in the hotspot is difficult, because agencies like the World Bank and the European Union will not designate money for work in New Caledonia, which is technically part of France.
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This will be the first visit by a member of the Rudd Government to the French collectivity of New Caledonia, which is one of our nearest neighbours in the Pacific region.
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Terra del Espiritu Santo of Quiros; * but, from the prevailing winds, it would appear more likely to have been drifted from New Caledonia, which island at that time was unknown to him; the fresh appearance of the coconut seen by us renders, however, even this conclusion doubtful;
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King
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The settlement was called New Caledonia; and the directors having taken every precaution for its security, entered into negotiations with the independent Indians in the neighbourhood, by whom it is believed that the tenure of the "Scots Company" was sanctioned.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various
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Shortly afterwards, other posts were founded and a brisk trade carried on in the northern interior, which was long called New Caledonia, and comprised at one time the basin of the Thompson, discovered in 1808 by the astronomer-geographer David
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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