The region includes the four independent countries of Fiji, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea.
Melanesia includes the islands from Papua New Guinea to Fiji. Micronesia includes small islands located north of Melanesia. Polynesia includes island groups from the Hawaiian Islands to the Pitcairn Islands.
Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea is the largest country in the Pacific realm and therefore the largest in Melanesia.
MelanesiaFiji.New Caledonia.Papua New Guinea.Solomon Islands.Vanuatu.
OceaniaMelanesia is one of the geographical subregions of Oceania extending from the western side of the West Pacific to the Arafura Sea, north and northeast of Australia. The term was first used by Jules Dumont d'Urville in 1832 to denote an ethnic and geographical grouping of islands distinct from Polynesia and Micronesia.
2,000 islandsMelanesia's 2,000 islands and total land area of about 386,000 square miles (one million square kilometers) is home to about 12 million people. The climate of Melanesia is tropically humid.
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Most of the international logging investment in Melanesia has centred on that country (which has more than 175,000 square miles [450,000 square km] of forested land). Logging also plays a dominant role in the Solomon Islands, where it accounts for a large proportion of merchandise exports.
Where is Melanesia located apex? Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania and it is located in the South Pacific Ocean. This region includes New Guinea island Papua New Guinea New Caledonia Vanuatu Fiji East Timor and the Solomon Islands.
The island region of Melanesia contains many high islands because it is a major part of the “Ring of Fire,” a string of volcanoes around the boundary of the Pacific Ocean. This part of the Ring of Fire is on the boundary of the Pacific plate and the Australian plate.
No, the Philippines is not part of Melanesia. It is located to the northwest of the region.
Notes: Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania and refers to the Pacific Islands from New Guinea south east-wards to the Fiji. It has four countries viz. Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea.
Hawaii is the only US state entirely composed of an island. Hawaii is the northernmost island group in Polynesia and can be rightfully be referred to as a Polynesian. It includes almost the entire of volcanic Hawaiian Archipelago which is made of several islands spread over 1,500 miles in the central Pacific Ocean.
MelanesiansMost indigenous Fijians are actually Melanesians, but for several thousand years Fijians have been sailing to, interacting and intermarrying with Polynesians, especially the people of Samoa and Tonga and other smaller island groups near there.
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Notes: Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania and refers to the Pacific Islands from New Guinea south east-wards to the Fiji. It has four countries viz. Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea.