New Caledonia or (French: Nouvelle-Calédonie) (name of the folk: Kanaky, and Le caillou) is a set of islands under the sovereignty of France (1853) in the Pacific Ocean.

Southeastern Asia, native to this land from generations of the peoples inhabiting the island of New Guinea, are that from 50 thousand years ago, these islands .

about 1500 years ago the peoples of Polynesia inhabit islands north ; the so-called to these islands came. It, they don't skilled were agricultural also were aware of, and on a large area in the Pacific Ocean, the impact would have been. From the eleventh century AD, time to the island, and with the people it . James Cook in the year 1774, the first, was that . in 1853 a colony of France, and migrated extensively from Europe, to it also from the second half of the nineteenth century began.