This island's native inhabitants largely hail from the Kanak ethnic group.
Louise Michel was deported to this island, where she later became a schoolteacher for the relatives of the Algerian martyr Cheikh El Mokrani. This island's native inhabitants largely hail from the Kanak ethnic group. A 1987 hostage crisis on the nearby island of Ouvea resulted in the signing of this island's Matignon Accords, which scheduled a 1998 referendum on self-determination.  In the 1870s, thousands of (*) Communards were deported to this island and the nearby Isle of Pines, which had been annexed by France in 1853. This island's "special collectivity" includes the Belep Archipelago, the Chesterfield Islands, and the Loyalty Islands. It lies southwest of ► Vanuatu, on the southern end of the Coral Sea. Noumea is the capital of, for 10 points, what special collectivity of France in the Pacific Ocean that was named by James Cook after the Latin name for Scotland?
Louise Michel was deported to this island, where she later became a schoolteacher for the relatives of the Algerian martyr Cheikh El Mokrani.
New Caledonia