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Oceania , , [4] is a geographic region that includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. When compared with the continents, the region of Oceania is the smallest in land area and the second smallest in population after Antarctica. Oceania has a diverse mix of economies from the highly developed and globally competitive financial markets of Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, French Polynesia and Hawaii, which rank high in quality of life and human development index, [6] [7] to the much less developed economies such as Papua New Guinea, Indonesian New Guinea, Kiribati, Vanuatu and Tuvalu, [8] while also including medium-sized economies of Pacific islands such as Palau, Fiji and Tonga.

The first settlers of Australia, New Guinea, and the large islands just to the east arrived more than 60, years ago. Portuguese navigators, between and , reached the Tanimbar Islands, some of the Caroline Islands and west Papua New Guinea. On his first voyage in the 18th century, James Cook, who later arrived at the highly developed Hawaiian Islands, went to Tahiti and followed the east coast of Australia for the first time. The arrival of European settlers in subsequent centuries resulted in a significant alteration in the social and political landscape of Oceania. In more contemporary times there has been increasing discussion on national flags and a desire by some Oceanians to display their distinguishable and individualistic identity.

Definitions of Oceania vary; however, the islands at the geographic extremes of Oceania are generally considered to be the Bonin Islands, a politically integral part of Japan; Hawaii, a state of the United States; Clipperton Island, a possession of France; the Juan Fernández Islands, belonging to Chile; and Macquarie Island, belonging to Australia. The geographer Conrad Malte-Brun coined the French expression Terres océaniques Oceanic lands c. The term Oceania is used because, unlike the other continental groupings, it is the ocean that links the parts of the region together. In some countries, such as Brazil, Oceania is regarded as a continent in the sense of "one of the parts of the world", and the concept of Australia as a continent does not exist. Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands who migrated from Africa to Asia around 70, years ago [24] and arrived in Australia around 50, years ago.

They reached Tasmania approximately 40, years ago by migrating across a land bridge from the mainland that existed during the last ice age. The original inhabitants of the group of islands now named Melanesia were likely the ancestors of the present-day Papuan-speaking people. Migrating from South-East Asia, they appear to have occupied these islands as far east as the main islands in the Solomon Islands archipelago, including Makira and possibly the smaller islands farther to the east. Particularly along the north coast of New Guinea and in the islands north and east of New Guinea, the Austronesian people, who had migrated into the area somewhat more than 3, years ago, came into contact with these pre-existing populations of Papuan-speaking peoples. In the late 20th century, some scholars theorized a long period of interaction, which resulted in many complex changes in genetics, languages, and culture among the peoples.

Chronological dispersal of Austronesian people across the Pacific per Bellwood in Chambers, Micronesia began to be settled several millennia ago, although there are competing theories about the origin and arrival of the first settlers. There are numerous difficulties with conducting archaeological excavations in the islands, due to their size, settlement patterns and storm damage. As a result, much evidence is based on linguistic analysis. The earliest archaeological traces of civilization have been found on the island of Saipan, dated to BC or slightly before. The ancestors of the Micronesians settled there over 4, years ago. A decentralized chieftain-based system eventually evolved into a more centralized economic and religious culture centered on Yap and Pohnpei. The first people of the Northern Mariana Islands navigated to the islands and discovered it at some period between BC to BC from South-East Asia.

They became known as the Chamorros. Their language was named after them. The ancient Chamorro left a number of megalithic ruins, including Latte stone. The Refaluwasch or Carolinian people came to the Marianas in the s from the Caroline Islands. Micronesian colonists gradually settled the Marshall Islands during the 2nd millennium BC, with inter-island navigation made possible using traditional stick charts. The Polynesian people are considered to be by linguistic, archaeological and human genetic ancestry a subset of the sea-migrating Austronesian people and tracing Polynesian languages places their prehistoric origins in the Malay Archipelago, and ultimately, in Taiwan. Between about and BCE speakers of Austronesian languages began spreading from Taiwan into Island South-East Asia, [39] [40] [41] as tribes whose natives were thought to have arrived through South China about 8, years ago to the edges of western Micronesia and on into Melanesia. In the archaeological record there are well-defined traces of this expansion which allow the path it took to be followed and dated with some certainty.

It is thought that by roughly BC, [42] "Lapita Peoples", so-named after their pottery tradition, appeared in the Bismarck Archipelago of north-west Melanesia. Easter Islanders claimed that a chief Hotu Matu'a [45] discovered the island in one or two large canoes with his wife and extended family. Around , Tahitian explorers discovered and began settling the area. This date range is based on glottochronological calculations and on three radiocarbon dates from charcoal that appears to have been produced during forest clearance activities. Barbié du Bocage. Includes regions of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia and Malesia. Oceania was first explored by Europeans from the 16th century onwards.

Portuguese navigators, between and , reached the Maluku Islands by António de Abreu and Francisco Serrão in , Timor, the Aru Islands Martim A. Melo Coutinho , the Tanimbar Islands, some of the Caroline Islands by Gomes de Sequeira in , and west Papua New Guinea by Jorge de Menezes in In , a Spanish expedition led by Ferdinand Magellan sailed down the east coast of South America, found and sailed through the strait that bears his name and on 28 November entered the ocean which he named "Pacific". The three remaining ships, led by Magellan and his captains Duarte Barbosa and João Serrão, then sailed north and caught the trade winds which carried them across the Pacific to the Philippines where Magellan was killed.

One surviving ship led by Juan Sebastián Elcano returned west across the Indian Ocean and the other went north in the hope of finding the westerlies and reaching Mexico. Unable to find the right winds, it was forced to return to the East Indies. The Magellan-Elcano expedition achieved the first circumnavigation of the world and reached the Philippines, the Mariana Islands and other islands of Oceania. From to a number of other large Spanish expeditions crossed the Pacific Ocean, leading to the arrival in Marshall Islands and Palau in the North Pacific, as well as Tuvalu, the Marquesas, the Solomon Islands archipelago, the Cook Islands and the Admiralty Islands in the South Pacific.

In the quest for Terra Australis, Spanish explorations in the 17th century, such as the expedition led by the Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, sailed to Pitcairn and Vanuatu archipelagos, and sailed the Torres Strait between Australia and New Guinea, named after navigator Luís Vaz de Torres. Willem Janszoon, made the first completely documented European landing in Australia , in Cape York Peninsula. On 23 April British explorer James Cook made his first recorded direct observation of indigenous Australians at Brush Island near Bawley Point. It is here that James Cook made first contact with an aboriginal tribe known as the Gweagal. His expedition became the first recorded Europeans to have encountered its eastern coastline of Australia.

New Guinea from to The Netherlands controlled the western half of New Guinea, Germany the north-eastern part, and Britain the south-eastern part. In the Mutiny on the Bounty against William Bligh led to several of the mutineers escaping the Royal Navy and settling on Pitcairn Islands, which later became a British colony. Britain also established colonies in Australia in , New Zealand in and Fiji in , with much of Oceania becoming part of the British Empire. The Gilbert Islands now known as Kiribati and the Ellice Islands now known as Tuvalu came under Britain's sphere of influence in the late 19th century. French Catholic missionaries arrived on Tahiti in ; their expulsion in caused France to send a gunboat in In , Tahiti and Tahuata were declared a French protectorate, to allow Catholic missionaries to work undisturbed.

The capital of Papeetē was founded in The Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar landed in the Marshall Islands in They were named by Krusenstern, after English explorer John Marshall, who visited them together with Thomas Gilbert in , en route from Botany Bay to Canton two ships of the First Fleet. In the British government transferred some administrative responsibility over south-east New Guinea to Australia which renamed the area "Territory of Papua" ; and in , transferred all remaining responsibility to Australia. The Marshall Islands were claimed by Spain in Germany established colonies in New Guinea in , and Samoa in The United States also expanded into the Pacific, beginning with Baker Island and Howland Island in , and with Hawaii becoming a U.

territory in Disagreements between the US, Germany and UK over Samoa led to the Tripartite Convention of One of the first land offensives in Oceania was the Occupation of German Samoa in August by New Zealand forces. The campaign to take Samoa ended without bloodshed after over 1, New Zealanders landed on the German colony. Australian forces attacked German New Guinea in September A company of Australians and a British warship besieged the Germans and their colonial subjects, ending with a German surrender. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, [61] [62] was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of 7 December The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.

The Japanese subsequently invaded New Guinea, Solomon Islands and other Pacific islands. The Japanese were turned back at the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Kokoda Track campaign before they were finally defeated in Some of the most prominent Oceanic battlegrounds were the Battle of Bita Paka, the Solomon Islands campaign, the Air raids on Darwin, the Kokada Track, and the Borneo campaign. Australia and New Zealand became dominions in the 20th century, adopting the Statute of Westminster Act in and respectively. In , Polynesians were granted French citizenship and the islands' status was changed to an overseas territory; the islands' name was changed in to Polynésie Française French Polynesia.

Hawaii became a U. state in Fiji and Tonga became independent in On 1 May , in recognition of the evolving political status of the Marshall Islands, the United States recognized the constitution of the Marshall Islands and the establishment of the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The South Pacific Forum was founded in , which became the Pacific Islands Forum in Oceania was originally conceived as the lands of the Pacific Ocean, stretching from the Strait of Malacca to the coast of the Americas. It comprised four regions: Polynesia , Micronesia , Malaysia now called the Malay Archipelago , and Melanesia. Oceania extends to New Guinea in the west, the Bonin Islands in the northwest, the Hawaiian Islands in the northeast, Rapa Nui and Sala y Gómez Island in the east, and Macquarie Island in the south.

Not included are the Pacific islands of Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands, and the Japanese archipelago, all on the margins of Asia, and the Aleutian Islands of North America. In its periphery, Oceania sprawls 28 degrees north to the Bonin Islands in the northern hemisphere, and 55 degrees south to Macquarie Island in the southern hemisphere. Oceanian islands are of four basic types: continental islands, high islands, coral reefs and uplifted coral platforms. High islands are of volcanic origin, and many contain active volcanoes. Among these are Bougainville, Hawaii, and Solomon Islands. Oceania is one of eight terrestrial biogeographic realms, which constitute the major ecological regions of the planet.

Related to these concepts are Near Oceania, that part of western Island Melanesia which has been inhabited for tens of millennia, and Remote Oceania which is more recently settled. Although the majority of the Oceanian islands lie in the South Pacific, a few of them are not restricted to the Pacific Ocean — Kangaroo Island and Ashmore and Cartier Islands, for instance, are situated in the Southern Ocean and Indian Ocean, respectively, and Tasmania's west coast faces the Southern Ocean. One of the most dramatic is the Great Barrier Reef off northeastern Australia with chains of reef patches. A second island type formed of coral is the uplifted coral platform, which is usually slightly larger than the low coral islands.

Princeton University Press. Random House. Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. The governor is elected statewide. Another dance performed by males is called the fa'ataupati or the slap dance, creating rhythmic sounds by slapping different parts of the body. Retrieved 3 February

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