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New Caledonia is a long lean island chain bordering the Coral Sea. A French Protectorate, Noumea, New Caledonia is 1150 miles from Auckland ... as the crow flies. Tacking is not crow flying ... best guestimate?... 1850 miles of back and forth of our base line of 344 degrees true. New Caledonia is your basic atoll writ large ... really large. From Ile Nëkanmué on the southeast to Ile Pott on the northwest and beyond the atoll covers NINE thousand square miles. 9,266 actually. Biggest atoll on...