• 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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    New Zealand, Polynesia, the Santa Cruz Islands, and Vanuatu. East Melanesian Islands Micronesian navigation Near Oceania Polynesian navigation Remote...
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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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    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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    of the inhabitants of the islands reaching from the Admiralty Islands to Fiji”. Dixon evidently uses the term "Melanesian" to refer exclusively to Austronesian...
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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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    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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    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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  • the islands of Tabar, Lihir as well as the islands in the Solomon Islands archipelago. The central Melanesian cicadabird was formally described in 1888...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    are still used in science, popular culture and general usage. East Melanesian Islands Micronesian navigation Polynesian navigation Remote Oceania Remote...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    (disambiguation) Admiralty Islands languages US Naval Advance Bases "Admiralty Islands | Melanesian, Bismarck Archipelago, Manus Island | Britannica". www.britannica...
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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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    Palau (redirect from Palau Islands)
    United States dollar as its official currency. The islands' culture mixes Micronesian, Melanesian, Asian, and Western elements. Ethnic Palauans, the majority...
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    The Pacific islands are a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. They are further categorized into three major island groups: Melanesia, Micronesia, and...
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    Marquesas Islands. It was also practised in New Guinea and in parts of the Solomon Islands, and human flesh was sold at markets in some Melanesian islands. Cannibalism...
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