Maré Island
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Maré | |
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 Maré Beach | |
 Location of the commune (in red) within New Caledonia | |
Location of Maré  | |
| Coordinates: 21°31′00″S 167°59′00″E / 21.5167°S 167.9833°E | |
| Country | Mixed 1.27% Other 0.43% |
| Time zone | UTC+11:00 |
| INSEE/Postal code | /98828 |
| Elevation | 0–138 m (0–453 ft) (avg. 40 m or 130 ft) |
| 1 New Caledonia Land Register (DITTT) data, which exclude lakes and ponds larger than 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) as well as the estuaries of rivers. | |
Maré Island or Nengone (
Geography
The island is 42 km (26 mi) long and 16 to 33 km (10 to 20 miles) wide. It lies northeast of Grande Terre, New Caledonia's mainland. Like its neighbor to the north Lifou, Maré is a raised coral atoll, a former atoll that has been lifted about 120 meters. The interior of the island is the former lagoon, surrounded by a rim of higher land that was the ring of reef islets. Its fossil coral rock is honeycombed with caves, pools, and pits of all sizes, whose sharp edges make for difficult walking. Because of the lifting, the current shoreline is relatively recent and supports only short sections of nearshore fringing reef, unlike the extensive barrier reef found on the main island of New Caledonia, Grande Terre. The narrow beaches of Maré are often backed by cliffs.
Villages include, from north-southwards,
.Climate
Maré Island has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen climate classification Am). The average annual temperature in Maré Island is 22.4 °C (72.3 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,669.9 mm (65.74 in) with March as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in February, at around 26.0 °C (78.8 °F), and lowest in August, at around 18.9 °C (66.0 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Maré Island was 35.0 °C (95.0 °F) on 13 February 2016; the coldest temperature ever recorded was 2.8 °C (37.0 °F) on 27 August 1979.
| Climate data for Maré Island (La Roche, 1991−2020 normals, extremes 1970−present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 33.5 (92.3) |
35.0 (95.0) |
34.2 (93.6) |
33.1 (91.6) |
32.8 (91.0) |
32.2 (90.0) |
29.2 (84.6) |
29.1 (84.4) |
30.1 (86.2) |
32.0 (89.6) |
32.9 (91.2) |
32.0 (89.6) |
35.0 (95.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 29.4 (84.9) |
29.8 (85.6) |
29.0 (84.2) |
27.8 (82.0) |
26.1 (79.0) |
24.8 (76.6) |
24.0 (75.2) |
24.0 (75.2) |
25.0 (77.0) |
26.1 (79.0) |
27.3 (81.1) |
28.6 (83.5) |
26.8 (80.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 25.4 (77.7) |
26.0 (78.8) |
25.5 (77.9) |
24.1 (75.4) |
21.8 (71.2) |
20.5 (68.9) |
19.2 (66.6) |
18.9 (66.0) |
19.7 (67.5) |
21.1 (70.0) |
22.6 (72.7) |
24.3 (75.7) |
22.4 (72.3) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 21.4 (70.5) |
22.2 (72.0) |
22.0 (71.6) |
20.3 (68.5) |
17.5 (63.5) |
16.1 (61.0) |
14.4 (57.9) |
13.8 (56.8) |
14.4 (57.9) |
16.2 (61.2) |
18.0 (64.4) |
20.0 (68.0) |
18.0 (64.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 12.5 (54.5) |
12.5 (54.5) |
11.6 (52.9) |
9.6 (49.3) |
6.9 (44.4) |
6.5 (43.7) |
4.3 (39.7) |
2.8 (37.0) |
4.1 (39.4) |
5.4 (41.7) |
8.8 (47.8) |
9.5 (49.1) |
2.8 (37.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 189.9 (7.48) |
194.8 (7.67) |
243.3 (9.58) |
172.9 (6.81) |
162.8 (6.41) |
123.1 (4.85) |
104.3 (4.11) |
82.7 (3.26) |
74.3 (2.93) |
91.8 (3.61) |
89.0 (3.50) |
141.0 (5.55) |
1,669.9 (65.74) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 12.0 | 12.5 | 15.5 | 12.7 | 11.9 | 11.1 | 9.5 | 8.1 | 7.2 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 10.1 | 125.6 |
| Source: Météo-France[3] | |||||||||||||
Commune
The commune of Maré is made up of Maré Island and the much smaller
People
The population of Maré is about 6,900, of mainly
Maré has produced several important leaders of the militant
European sighting
The first recorded sighting of Maré Island by a European occurred around August 1793. William Raven, master of Britannia was sailing to Batavia from Sydney, to procure provisions for the penal colony there.[4]
Citations
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 30 November 2023.
- ^ Population, ménages et logement par commune, en 2019, Institut de la statistique et des études économiques Nouvelle-Calédonie
- ^ "Fiche Climatologique Statistiques 1991-2020 et records" (PDF). Météo-France. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
- ISBN 0810853957.
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