NEW CALEDONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New Caledonia mean? 

• NEW CALEDONIA (noun)
  The noun NEW CALEDONIA has 1 sense:

1. an island to the to the east of Australia and to the north of New Zealand

  Familiarity information: NEW CALEDONIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW CALEDONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island to the to the east of Australia and to the north of New Zealand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Holonyms ("New Caledonia" is a part of...):

Melanesia (the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania)

Derivation:

New Caledonian (of or relating to New Caledonia)

 Context examples 

Only six percent, however, is above water, the majority of which is New Zealand, New Caledonia and some smaller islands.

(Researchers Argue for Eighth Continent: Zealandia, VOA)