Astronaut on board ISS captured Noumea, the capital of New Caledonia.
Nouméa is on a peninsula in the south of New Caledonia’s main island, Grande Terre, and is home to the majority of the island’s European, Polynesian (Wallisians, Futunians, Tahitians), Indonesian, and Vietnamese populations, as well as many Melanesians, Ni-Vanuatu and Kanaks who work in one of the South Pacific’s most industrialized cities. The city lies on a protected deepwater harbor that serves as the chief port for New Caledonia. 67.2% of the population of New Caledonia live in Greater Nouméa, which covers the communes of Nouméa, Le Mont-Dore, Dumbéa and Païta.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: NASA Earth’s Tweet
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