Ouvanou Memorial

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About 1km north of Pouébo, on the coast side of the main road, is a carefully tended, touching memorial to 10 local Kanak men who were guillotined by the French on 18 May 1868. They have very obviously not been forgotten, nearly 150 years on.

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