Ouvéa
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Ouvéa (Script error: No such module "IPA".) or Uvea is a commune in the Loyalty Islands Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The settlement of Fayaoué Script error: No such module "IPA"., on Ouvéa Island, is the administrative centre of the commune.[2]
Geography
Ouvéa is made up of Ouvéa Island, the smaller Mouli Island and Faiava Island, and several islets around these three. All lie among the Loyalty Islands, to the northeast of New Caledonia's mainland.
Important Bird Area
Ouvea has been recognised as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports populations of red-bellied fruit doves, Ouvea parakeets, grey-eared honeyeaters, New Caledonian friarbirds, cardinal myzomelas, fan-tailed gerygones, long-tailed trillers, streaked fantails, Melanesian flycatchers and striated starlings.[3]
Climate
Ouvéa has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen climate classification Am). The average annual temperature in Ouvéa is Template:Cvt. The average annual rainfall is Template:Cvt with March as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in February, at around Template:Cvt, and lowest in July, at around Script error: No such module "convert".. The highest temperature ever recorded in Ouvéa was Template:Cvt on 7 February 2016; the coldest temperature ever recorded was Template:Cvt on 10 August 1981. Script error: No such module "weather box".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
History
Ouvéa is a Polynesian outlier originally settled by Polynesian navigators who named it for their home island, Uvea Island. Some of their descendants still speak the West Uvean language.
Kanak activism
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Languages
The native languages of Ouvéa are the Melanesian Iaai and the Polynesian Faga Uvea, which is the only Polynesian language that has taken root in New Caledonia. Speakers of Faga Uvea have fully integrated into the Kanak society and consider themselves Kanak.
References
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