Yes and it is beautiful, going back in November on a cruise 🚢

Newish

Yes, many years ago. It’s very tropical and French so everything is expensive. The hotels cater for all languages but the National language is French.

New Caledonie is also quite close to Queensland, Australia.

I met someone from there randomly one night. I would love to go there someday!

Scary stuff

There used to be a French penal colony there, rather like Devil's Island, according this old time radio program:

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yes

Cold, with castles and they eat haggis. Oh wait. That's old Caledonia.

Had to look at it on a map, as it sounded familiar. Spent some time doing a mult-national military exercise off of Northern Australia, then libbo in Sydney for a week before the next stop in Fiji.....which is east of that. I remember how lush and tropical it was.
If you haven't watch Papillon starring Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen, you should as it's about that very thing.

No but I rather like New Cydonia.
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I've never even been to Old Caledonia. :(

I have never been there.

But I Googled images of it. It looks awesome.

Yeeeeeessssss.... Wait Nhu!

Nope.