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Chesterfield Islands
Chesterfield Islands (''îles Chesterfield'' in French) is a French archipelago of New Caledonia located in the Coral Sea, 550 km northwest of Grande Terre, the main island of New Caledonia. The archipelago 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.
During periods of lowered sea level during the Pleistocene ice ages an island of considerable size (Greater Chesterfield Island) occupied the location of the archipelago.
Bellona Reef, 164 km south-southeast of Chesterfield, is geologically separated from the Chesterfield archipelago but commonly included.
==Etymology==
The reef complex is named after the ship ''Chesterfield'', commanded by Matthew B. Alt, which explored the Coral Sea in the 1790s.
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