new caledonia

1. 1.

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

   Broaderisland

   Part ofMelanesia

Questions about new caledonia

What does new caledonia mean?

new caledonia means "an island to the to the east of Australia and to the north of New Zealand".

Is new caledonia a common word?

new caledonia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.