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Belep ( sometimes unofficially spelled Bélep ) is a ___MASK3___ in the North ___MASK51___ , an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean . It has almost 900 people living on 70 km . The South ___MASK1___ ( French ___MASK1___ Sud ) is one of three administrative subdivisions in New Caledonia . It corresponds to the southern and southwestern portion of the New Caledonian mainland . New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific ___MASK71___ , east of Australia and east of Metropolitan France . The archipelago , part of the Melanesia subregion , includes the main island of Grande Terre , the Loyalty Islands , the Chesterfield Islands , the Belep archipelago , the Isle of Pines , and a few remote islets . The Chesterfield Islands are in the Coral ___MASK48___ . Locals refer to Grande Terre as "" (" the pebble "). Melanesia is a ___MASK5___ of Oceania ( and occasionally Australasia ) extending from the western end of the Pacific ___MASK71___ to the Arafura ___MASK48___ , and eastward to Fiji . Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia , is a ___MASK70___ comprising the mainland of the Australian ___MASK89___ , the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands . It is the world ' s sixth - largest ___MASK70___ by total area . The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea , Indonesia and East Timor to the north ; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north - east ; and New Zealand to the south - east . Australia ' s capital is Canberra , and its largest urban area is Sydney . The Pacific ___MASK71___ is the largest of the Earth ' s oceanic divisions . It extends from the Arctic ___MASK71___ in the north to the Southern ___MASK71___ ( or , depending on definition , to Antarctica ) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east . ___MASK76___ France ( or " la Métropole "), also known as European France , is the ___MASK57___ of France in Europe . It comprises mainland France and nearby islands in the Atlantic ___MASK71___ , the English Channel , and the Mediterranean ___MASK48___ , including Corsica . Overseas France (" la France d ' outre - mer ") is the collective name for the ___MASK57___ of France outside Europe : French overseas regions (" départements et régions d ' outre - mer " or " DROM "), territories (" territoires d ' outre - mer " or " TOM "), collectivities (" collectivités d ' outre - mer " or " COM "), and the sui generis collectivity (" collectivité sui generis ") of New Caledonia . Caledonia is the Latin ___MASK15___ given by the Romans to the land in today ' s Scotland north of their province of " Britannia ", beyond the frontier of their ___MASK60___ . The etymology of the ___MASK15___ is probably from a P - Celtic source . Its modern usage is as a romantic or poetic ___MASK15___ for Scotland as a whole , comparable with Hibernia for Ireland and Britannia for the whole of England and Wales . The Loyalty Islands are an ___MASK73___ in the Pacific . They are ___MASK57___ of the French territory of New Caledonia , whose mainland is away . They form the Loyalty Islands ___MASK1___ (" ___MASK1___ des îles Loyauté "), one of the three provinces of New Caledonia . It has 17 , 000 ___MASK58___ living on almost . The native inhabitants are the Kanak ___MASK58___ and the Tavu ' avua ' ___MASK58___ . The Coral ___MASK48___ is a marginal ___MASK48___ of the South Pacific off the northeast ___MASK42___ of Australia , and classified as an interim Australian bioregion . Chesterfield Islands (" îles Chesterfield " in French ) is a French ___MASK73___ of New Caledonia located in the Coral ___MASK48___ , 550 km northwest of Grande Terre , the main island of New Caledonia . The ___MASK73___ is 120 km long and 70 km broad , made up of 11 islets and many reefs . The land area of the islands is less than 10 km² .