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New Caledonia?

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How did New Caledonia get to be in possession of the French? Why does it still belong to them?

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  1. Captain Cook named the island but it remained unsettled by Europeans until the French annexed it in 1853.  France proceeded to turn it into a penal colony, with settlers arriving later.

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