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Australians stranded in New Caledonia 'running out of food'
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Austra … ut-of-food
an old thread which promoted the idea of instability, talked of New Caledonia,
would this have turned Everest into a tourism site in Nepal mainly situated in the Himalayas, would it have made Australia, Mongolia better with their significant challenges and Deserts? would 'unstability' have made more science writings in Antarctica?
'A no man's land': Aussie stuck in New Caledonia unrest
https://www.sheppnews.com.au/national/a … ia-unrest/
Australians trapped in New Caledonia amid riots urged to exercise 'high degree of caution'
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-18/ … /103865550
Foreign Minister Penny Wong urges Australians in New Caledonia "to exercise a high degree of caution"
An article on a France site describes the French colony island near Australia, Overseas territory of France or French-administered territories outside Europe, perhaps the last remains of a colonial Empire, the New Caledonia settlements were concentrated around the coast and date back to the period between period between 1100 BC and AD 200 Anno Domini or CE ' Common Era '
https://web.archive.org/web/20121030183 … e/Histoire
Nobody knew who the locals were they had some skills as farmers and trade with ships, skills with navigation but it seems they were also very violent and aggressive and ate people, human cannibals. James Cook was the first from the new world to see it and named it "New Caledonia", as the northeast of the island reminded him of Scotland. Jean François de Galaup or Lapérouse a French naval officer and explorer sailed around it. Lapérouse had reported in a letter from Port Jackson that he expected to be back in France by June 1789, neither he nor any members of his expedition were seen again by Europeans. The French are still looking for him hundreds of years later, Lapérouse was appointed in 1785 by Louis XVI the last King of France before the Revolution. The Montgolfier brothers gave to Laperouse two prototypes of the new invented hot balloons to carry on board the Astolabe. Captain Edwards' searching for remaining mutineers of HMS Bounty sailed a numbers of islands, Vanikoro on 13th day of August 1791, he observed smoke signals rising from the island. Edwards, single-minded in his search for Bounty and convinced that mutineers fearful of discovery would not be advertising their whereabouts, ignored the smoke signals. It is now argued that the smoke signals were almost certainly a distress message sent by survivors of the Lapérouse expedition. In 1849, the crew of the American ship Cutter was killed and eaten by the Pouma clan. Human cannibalism was widespread throughout New Caledonia. In year 2008, two French Navy ships set out for Vanikoro from Nouméa and arrived on 15th day of October, thus recreating a section of the final voyage of discovery undertaken more than 200 years earlier by Lapérouse
https://web.archive.org/web/20161021144 … se2008.fr/
New Caledonia riots: ‘Significant work’ being done to evacuate trapped New Zealanders
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-caled … N4P2ISY3U/
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