• The East Melanesian Islands, also known as the Solomons-Vanuatu-Bismarck moist forests, is a biogeographic region in the Melanesia subregion of Oceania...
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    Melanesians are the predominant and indigenous inhabitants of Melanesia, in an area stretching from New Guinea to the Fiji Islands. Most speak one of the...
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  • peoples Lapita culture Micronesian navigation Polynesian navigation East Melanesian Islands Near Oceania Remote Oceania Central–Eastern Oceanic languages Oceanic...
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  • Meso-Melanesian languages are a linkage of Oceanic languages spoken in the large Melanesian islands of New Ireland and the Solomon Islands east of New...
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    and Solomon Islands. The MSG Trade Agreement was signed in 1993 by Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. At the 6th Melanesian Spearhead Group...
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    New Zealand, Polynesia, the Santa Cruz Islands, and Vanuatu. East Melanesian Islands Micronesian navigation Near Oceania Polynesian navigation Remote...
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    forming the Pacific. The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Melanesia are called Melanesians. This is a heterogenous set of different genetic groups...
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    Australasia realm includes Australia, Tasmania, the islands of Wallacea, New Guinea, the East Melanesian Islands, New Caledonia, and New Zealand. Udvardy's Australian...
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    from the Malay Peninsula across Indonesia to New Guinea and the East Melanesian Islands. The flora of New Guinea is a mixture of many tropical rainforest...
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    New Guinea with its adjacent smaller islands forming one; and the long series of islands lying to the north and east of it, from the Admiralty group to...
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    Pacific Community Pacific Islands Forum Pacific Regional Environment Programme by biogeography: Papuasia East Melanesian Islands by geology (see also: Geology...
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  • Western Ghats and Sri Lanka (21) Southeast Asia and Asia-Pacific East Melanesian Islands (34) New Caledonia (23) New Zealand (24) Philippines (18) Polynesia-Micronesia...
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    Solomon Islands (archipelago) is an island group in the western South Pacific Ocean, north-east of Australia. The archipelago is in the Melanesian subregion...
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  • included Papuans, Aboriginal Australians and Melanesians (mainly from Fiji, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu), there was controversy about the...
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  • its fellow Melanesian nations (such as Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands). In 1982, he expressed hopes for an eventual Melanesian federal union...
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    are still used in science, popular culture and general usage. East Melanesian Islands Micronesian navigation Polynesian navigation Remote Oceania Remote...
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    Vanuatu (redirect from Vanuatu Islands)
    northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast of Solomon Islands, and west of Fiji. Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesian people. The first Europeans...
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    Solomon Archipelago (category Ecoregions of the Solomon Islands)
    autonomous region of Papua New Guinea. The Solomon Islands rain forests form part of the East Melanesian Islands ecoregion, also known as the Solomons-Vanuatu-Bismarck...
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  • Christianity portal The Melanesian Brotherhood is an Anglican religious community of men in simple vows based primarily in the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Papua...
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    from the Malay Peninsula across Indonesia to New Guinea and the East Melanesian Islands. The flora of New Guinea is a mixture of many tropical rainforest...
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    of the Pacific Islands Forum. In 2016, the country joined the Pacific Islands Forum. East Timor has had observer status in the Melanesian Spearhead Group...
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    (disambiguation) Admiralty Islands languages US Naval Advance Bases "Admiralty Islands | Melanesian, Bismarck Archipelago, Manus Island | Britannica". www.britannica...
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    Melanesian population around 2000 BCE. Melanesian features are strongest in the islands of Kei and Aru and amongst the interior people of the islands...
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    island, Guadalcanal. The country takes its name from the wider area of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which is a collection of Melanesian islands that...
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    each village on the island. However, kastom, i.e. the Melanesian traditions, still means a lot to the islanders. Presently, the island is ruled by a council...
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    archipelagos—the Caroline Islands, the Gilbert Islands, the Mariana Islands, and the Marshall Islands — as well as numerous islands that are not part of any...
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    – 2021: East Melanesian Islands (USD 9 million) 2014 – 2019: Wallacea (USD 6.85 million) 2015 – 2020: Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands (USD 9.54...
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    Polynesia (redirect from Polynesian islands)
    arrived. The oceanic islands to the east of Easter Island, such as Clipperton Island, the Galápagos Islands, and the Juan Fernández Islands, were in the past...
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    confirming the Australo-Melanesian substratum in Island Southeast Asia and New Guinea. hspMāori, on the other hand, is a subpopulation of hpEastAsia, previously...
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    The Torres Strait Islands are an archipelago of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait, a waterway separating far northern continental Australia's...
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