Definisjon av melanesia

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Melanesia - the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania
austronesia islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia)
oceania, oceanica a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)
fiji islands fijis
bismarck archipelago a group of islands in the southwestern Pacific to the northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea
new caledonia an island to the to the east of Australia and to the north of New Zealand
solomons, solomon islands the northernmost islands are part of Papua New Guinea; the remainder form an independent state within the British Commonwealth
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  • Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania extending from the western end of the Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji. The region comprises most of the islands immediately north and northeast of Australia. The name Melanesia was first used by Jules Dumont d'Urville in 1832 to denote an ethnic and geographical grouping of islands distinct from Polynesia and Micronesia.

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