Grande Terre
Grand Terre is the main island in New Caledonia. It is one of the largest islands in the Pacific. The barrier reef lying off New Caledonia is second only to the Great Barrier Reef in size.Photo: Bananaflo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Nouméa and Bourail.
Nouméa
Nouméa is the largest city in and capital of New Caledonia, lying on the main island of Grande Terre. One of the most westernised cities in the Pacific Islands, it features beautiful beaches and colonial mansions and is not yet a heavily touristed destination.
Bourail
Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bourail is a small town in New Caledonia on the island of Grande Terre.
Koné
Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Koné is a small town in New Caledonia on Grande Terre island. It is the seat of government for the Northern Province.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Le Mont-Dore and La Foa.
Le Mont-Dore
Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mont-Dore is a town in the island of Grande Terre, New Caledonia with a population of 27,620. It's also the second largest city in New Caledonia, just after Nouméa.
La Foa
Photo: Thomas Ballandras, CC BY 2.0.
La Foa is a commune in the South Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. Although the provincial seat of the South Province is in Nouméa, La Foa was made the chief town of the administrative subdivision of the South in order to counterbalance the overwhelming weight of Nouméa in New Caledonia.
Blue River Provincial Park
Photo: Gwendal Audran, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Blue River Provincial Park is a provincial park in South Province, Grand Terre, New Caledonia. It's the sui generis' most visited park, home to incredible mountain scenery, petroglyphs and the drowned tropical rainforest.
Grande Terre
- Type: island
- Description: principal island of New Caledonia
- Also known as: “New Caledonia”
- Category: continental island
- Location: New Caledonia, Melanesia, Oceania
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Latitude of center
-21.26° or 21° 15′ 36″ southLongitude of center
165.39° or 165° 23′ 24″ eastWikidata ID
Q256293
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Grande Terre” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Grande Terre”
- Azerbaijani: “Qrand Ter”
- Catalan: “Grande Terre”
- Chinese: “大特雷島”
- Chinese: “格朗德特爾島”
- Czech: “Nová Kaledonie”
- Dutch: “Grande Terre”
- Dutch: “Nieuw-Caledonie (eiland)”
- Dutch: “Nieuw-Caledonië”
- Esperanto: “Ĉefinsulo de Nov-Kaledonio”
- Estonian: “Uus-Kaledoonia saar”
- Finnish: “Grande Terre”
- French: “Grande Terre”
- Galician: “Grande Terre, Nova Caledonia”
- Georgian: “გრანდ-ტერი”
- German: “Grande Terre”
- Greek: “Γκραντ Τερ”
- Hebrew: “גרנד טר”
- Italian: “Grande Terre”
- Japanese: “グランドテール島”
- Korean: “그랑드 테르 섬”
- Korean: “그랑드테르 섬”
- Korean: “그랑드테르섬”
- Latvian: “Grantēra (Jaunkaledonija)”
- Latvian: “Grantēra”
- Lithuanian: “Naujoji Kaledonija”
- Maori: “Urimaroa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grande Terre”
- Norwegian: “Grande Terre”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Grande Terre (Nòva Caledònia)”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tèrra Granda”
- Polish: “Grande Terre”
- Polish: “Nowa Kaledonia”
- Portuguese: “Grande Terre”
- Russian: “Гранд-Тер (Новая Каледония)”
- Russian: “Гранд-Тер”
- Russian: “Новая Каледония (остров)”
- Russian: “Новая Каледония”
- Slovenian: “Grande Terre, Nova Kaledonija”
- Spanish: “Grande Terre”
- Swedish: “Grande Terre”
- Ukrainian: “Ґранд-Терр”
- Ukrainian: “Нова Каледонія”
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