Balade, also written Balaide, is a village located in the north of
New Caledonia
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. It was the site of the establishment of a Catholic mission in 1843.
A church still exists in the village.
According to New Caledonia Tourism, the bay of Balade is the site where
James Cook
James Cook (7 November 1728 Old Style date: 27 October – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean an ...
first visited the island in 1774, as well as where the ''Bucéphale'' landed the missionaries in 1843 and where Admiral
Auguste Febvrier Despointes
Auguste Febvrier-Despointes (1796 – 5 March 1855) was a French counter admiral. He served as the first commandant of New Caledonia from 24 September 1853 to 1 January 1854.
Life
Despointes entered the French Navy school at Brest in September ...
disembarked from the ship ''Le Phoque'' to take possession of New Caledonia for France in the name of
Napoleon III
Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew ...
on 24 September 1853.
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Populated places in New Caledonia