" Tradition, reported by George Chalmers in his Caledonia ( 1807 ), and by the New Statistical Account ( 1834 – 1845 ), has it that the early-historic mound of the Cunninghillock by Inverurie is the burial place of Áed.

The home of the modern game is still Scotland with the World Bowls centre in Edinburgh at Caledonia House, 1 Redheughs Rigg, South Gyle, Edinburgh, EH12 9DQ.

Major production sites include Sudbury region in Canada ( which is thought to be of meteoric origin ), New Caledonia in the Pacific and Norilsk in Russia.

New Caledonia () is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and east of Metropolitan France.

New Caledonia is a sui generis collectivity that has been gradually transferred certain powers from France.

At a national level, New Caledonia is represented in the French Parliament by two deputies and two senators.

Under the Noumea Accord, signed in 1998 following a period of secessionist unrest in the 1980s and approved in a referendum, New Caledonia is to hold a second referendum on independence between 2014 and 2018.

New Caledonia is further divided into 33 municipalities: One commune, Poya, is divided between two provinces.

New Caledonia is one of the northernmost parts of an almost entirely ( 93 %) submerged continent called Zealandia which rifted away from Antarctica between 130 and 85 million years ago ( mya ), and from Australia 85 – 60 mya.

New Zealand is a mountainous above-water promontory in its center, and New Caledonia is a promontory ridge on the continent's northern edge.

New Caledonia is made up of a main island, the Grande Terre, and several smaller islands, the Belep archipelago to the north of the Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands to the east of the Grande Terre, the ( Isle of Pines ) to the south of the Grande Terre, the Chesterfield Islands and Bellona Reefs further to the west.

The total area of New Caledonia is, of those being land.

New Caledonia is the slender island in the top left quadrant of the image at 11 o ' clock from New Zealand.

The Grande Terre group of New Caledonia, with Mont Panié at 1, 628 meters ( 5, 341 ft ) as its highest point, is the most elevated part of the Norfolk Ridge, a long and mostly underwater arm of the continent.

It is unusually slender, stretching from New Caledonia in the north to beyond New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands in the south ( from latitude 19 ° south to 56 ° south, analogous to ranging from Haiti to Hudson Bay or from Sudan to Sweden in the northern hemisphere ).

New Zealand is the greatest part of Zealandia above sea level, followed by New Caledonia.

Given its continental origin as a fragment of Zealandia, unlike many of the islands of the Pacific such as the Hawaiian chain, New Caledonia is not of geographically recent volcanic provenance.

The climate of New Caledonia is tropical, modified by southeasterly trade winds.

The Diahot River is the longest river of New Caledonia, flowing for some 60 miles ( 100 kilometres ).

New Caledonia is a French overseas country with a system of government based on parliamentarism and representative democracy.

Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Congress of New Caledonia.

The unique status of New Caledonia is in between that of an independent country and a regular collectivité d ' outre-mer or overseas collectivité of France.

New Caledonia is also allowed to engage in international cooperation with independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.

It is bounded in the west by the east coast of Queensland, thereby including the Great Barrier Reef, in the east by Vanuatu ( formerly the New Hebrides ) and by New Caledonia, and in the northeast approximately by the southern extremity of the Solomon Islands.

As of September 2006, there are approximately 4, 000 households in the community of Caledonia.

" It runs for approximately 95 kilometres, draining an area in the Caledonia Highlands, an extension of the Appalachian Mountains, inland from the Bay of Fundy.

At least 20 new species are currently in the process of being described from New Caledonia, and approximately the same number of species new to science may occur in Madagascar.

* Lycopodium deuterodensum, tree club moss ( eastern Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand ) — has appressed leaves ; height approximately 600 mm

Almost all of the approximately 90 species are endemic to Australia, with the single exception of Myrmecia apicalis from New Caledonia, where it is rare.

* Hagersville is approximately 45 km southwest of Hamilton, Ontario, and 15 km southwest of Caledonia, Ontario.

The bypass terminates at Greens Road on the north side of Caledonia and Highway 6 proceeds eastbound on Greens Road for approximately 500m to Argyle St North.

BoH sold its approximately 95 % share interest in its French Polynesia and New Caledonia operations to France-based Caisse Nationale des Caisses d ' Epargne ( CNCE ).

In Scotland, histories tracing the Scottish people to Japheth were published as late as George Chalmers ' well-received Caledonia, published in 3 volumes from 1807 to 1824.

In 2007, exports from New Caledonia amounted to 2. 11 billion US dollars, 96. 3 % of which were mineral products and alloys ( essentially nickel ore and ferronickel ).

Taiwan 20, 2 %, Australia 14, 7 %, Japan 13, 5 %, Singapore 11, 9 %, New Caledonia, Poland 7, 1 %, New Zealand 5, 6 %, Fiji 5, 3 % ( 2005 )

* Lansdowne Bank, west of New Caledonia ( 21000 km² ), submerged, least depth 3. 7 m More sources however list as the largest atoll in the world in terms of land area Kiritimati, which is also a raised coral atoll ( 321. 37 km² land area ; according to other sources even 575 km² ), 160 km² main lagoon, 168 km² other lagoons ( according to other sources 319 km² total lagoon size ).

At its peak, Bearcreek and the surrounding communities of Washoe, New Caledonia, Chickentown, Scotch Coulee, International, and Stringtown, had a population of about 3, 000 people, most of whom worked in the coal mines.

The current mayor of Haldimand County is Ken Hewitt ; Caledonia is within Ward 3 of Haldimand County.

In the event, Grampian was outbid by two challengers ; Channel 3 Caledonia and North of Scotland Television ( the latter of which was ironically the name of the original Grampian Television consortium ).

The 25th was transferred to New Caledonia, 3 February-14 March 1944, for continued training.

In addition to Saint Pierre and Miquelon, she also polled over 10 % in the Collectivity of Saint Martin ( 12. 51 %, 665 votes ), in New Caledonia ( 11. 66 %, 10, 409 votes ), in Saint Barthélemy ( 11. 41 %, 310 votes ), in French Guiana ( 10. 48 %, 3, 920 votes ) and in Réunion ( 10. 31 %, 37, 549 votes ).

* Provinces: There are 3 provinces, all in New Caledonia.

When the US Army reorganised from the " square " ( 4 Regiments to a Division ) to " triangular " ( 3 ) concept, the 132nd Infantry Regiment was separated and was sent to New Caledonia as part of Task Force 6814 where it became part of the Americal Division.

Christian Karembeu ( ; born 3 December 1970 in Lifou, New Caledonia ) is a retired French international footballer and current scout for Arsenal Football Club.

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New Caledonia ’ s fauna and flora derive from ancestral species isolated in the region when it broke away from Gondwana many tens of millions of years ago .< ref > Alan S. Collins, Sergei A. Pisarevsky, Amalgamating eastern Gondwana: The evolution of the Circum-Indian Orogens, Earth-Science Reviews, Volume 71, Issues 3 – 4, August 2005, Pages 229-270, ISSN 0012-8252, 10. 1016 / j. earscirev. 2005. 02. 004.

Located on the upper plaza, in front of the existing National War Memorial monument, a dark Caledonia granite sarcophagus 12 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 3 feet high encloses a coffin containing the remains of the unknown soldier.

Alexander Grant Dallas ( 25 July 1816 – 3 January 1882 ) was Chief Factor of the Columbia District and New Caledonia fur districts of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1857 to 1861, then Chief Factor of Fort Garry in what was to become Manitoba from 1862 to 1864.

There are two UK cyclosportives to be held on closed roads, the annual Etape Caledonia which attracted some 3, 500 cyclists in its 2009 edition and follows a route around the Perthshire highlands and the newly announced ' Etape Cymru ' which was held in October 2011 and follows the roads around North Wales including the Clywdians and the Horseshoe Pass.