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	Oceania - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Oceania is a geographical (often geopolitical) region consisting of numerous countries and territories – mostly islands – in the Pacific Ocean, usually including Australia and New Zealand.
		Oceania is the smallest continental grouping in land area and the second smallest, after Antarctica, in population.
		Oceania is one of eight terrestrial ecozones, which constitute the major ecological regions of the planet.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/o/c/e/Oceania.html (762 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Near Oceania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Near Oceania is a region, the part of Oceania that most linguists and scientists consider as one of the natural division of this continent — the other one is Remote Oceania — that includes Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
		New Guinea, Tasmania, the Aru Islands, and some smaller islands near Australia appear on a modern map as separate land, yet were we to siphon off the world's oceans to a depth of only 130 metres below the sea level, all these would suddenly be joined to the greater Australian land mass.
		To the north and east of New Guinea, the islands of Near Oceania (the Bismarcks and the Solomons) were likewise never connected to Sahul by dry land, for deep-water trenches also separate these from the Australian shelf.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Near_Oceania.html (587 words)

	Near Oceania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Near Oceania is the part of Oceania comprising Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
		To the north and east of New Guinea, the islands of Near Oceania (the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomons) were likewise never connected to Sahul by dry land, for deep-water trenches also separate these from the Australian continental shelf.
		This was also the case of the expansion of humans beyond New Guinea into the archipelagoes of Near Oceania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Near_Oceania (552 words)

	Virtual Oceania
		The name Oceania is used because, unlike the other continental groupings, it is the ocean and adjacent seas rather than a continent that link the lands together.
		Oceania is the smallest continent grouping in land area and the second smallest, after Antarctica, in population.
		The 2nd biggest country in Oceania and the Australasian region is New Zealand.
	www.virtualoceania.net /index.php (647 words)

	Scientific/Technical, Jacqueline Eng
		Near Oceania comprises all islands on the west side of the Pacific from New Guinea to as far eastward as the island of San Cristobal at the end of the Solomon archipelago.
		Remote Oceania comprises all islands separated from the islands of Near Oceania by water gaps greater than 350 km wide.
		The second stage involved the colonization of Remote Oceania in the remaining areas of Melanesia and all of Polynesia and Micronesia.
	prizedwriting.ucdavis.edu /past/1998-1999/eng.html (3303 words)

	Oceania Tennis Federation
		This will be the first time the two near neighbours have played and the first time two Oceania nations have faced off in Davis Cup since New Zealand played Australia in Christchurch in 1994.
		Pacific Oceania have a tough draw this year with either Pakistan or Philippines as opponents in the second round.
		It was the second year in a row that Oceania players have snared half the titles after claiming the girls singles and doubles at the inaugural tournament in 2005.
	www.oceaniatennis.com /style/index.php (328 words)

	Skiing the Pacific Ring of Fire and Beyond: Oceania
		The "continent" of Oceania is a geographer's convenience, consisting of Australia and the various island groups of the central and south Pacific, including New Guinea, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
		The relationship of New Guinea to Australia is identical to that of the island of Britain to Europe, both lying on the continental shelf and separated from the mainland by a shallow channel which was dry during the Ice Age, until about 10,000 years ago.
		This most isolated island group in the world sits near the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and its formation is not related to the subduction and rifting zones which surround the rim of the ocean.
	www.skimountaineer.com /ROF/Region.php?region=Oceania (902 words)

	Oceania Nuclear Testing
		The people of Micronesia, in particular, and Oceania in general, would have little reason to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the detonation of the world's first thermonuclear device, code-named "Mike", on Enewetak atoll in the Marshall Islands, in November, 1952.
		The civilians and servicemen left the atoll by ship before the device was remotely detonated from some thirty miles away.
		This particular entombment is a special interest because a nuclear-waste crypt is now being finished 800 miles from Honolulu at Johnston Island where plutonium-laced materials are to be buried under a cap of coral soil.
	www.janesoceania.com /oceania_bombs/index.htm (706 words)

	Oceania - Timeline Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Oceania is a geographical region consisting of numerous countries and territories — mostly islands — in the Pacific Ocean.
		The exact scope of Oceania is controversial, with varying interpretations including East Timor, Australia, New Zealand, or none of these.
		This subdivision is no longer recognised as correct by most geographers and scientists — who prefer to divide Oceania into Near Oceania and Remote Oceania — but it is still the most popular one.
	www.timelineindex.com /content/view/643 (253 words)

	News for a Synergic Earth :
		Rats appear in a region known as Near Oceania, which comprises the island of New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Bougainville, after 3,500 years ago.
		Haplogroup II was found in South-East Asia and a region known as Near Oceania.
		Haplogroup III is only found in an area known as Remote Oceania, comprising the islands of Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa.
	www.synearth.net /2004/06/09.html (1390 words)

	Oceania Cruises \| Cruises at Frommers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Oceania is the phoenix that rose from the ashes of Renaissance Cruises, which went belly-up in September 2001.
		Oceania is positioned as an "upper premium" line intended to fill the gap between big-ship premium lines such as Celebrity and real luxe lines such as Radisson, both in terms of ship size and level of luxury.
		Excellent cuisine: In both the main dining room and specialty restaurants, Oceania is near the top among mainstream lines.
	www.frommers.com /trip_ideas/cruise/line.cfm?linecd=OCEANIAC (371 words)

	Myths from Around the World
		The ancient Near East produced deities later found in Greco-Roman mythology.
		Epic myths, such as the story of Gilgamesh, were read at ritual festivals to celebrate the triumph of good over evil.
		The struggle between the two was an important part of Near Eastern myth.
	teacher.scholastic.com /writewit/mff/theneareast.htm (234 words)

	Oceania Easter Island News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Near Easter Island, Census researchers discovered a crab so unusual it warranted a whole new family designation,...
		Near Easter Island in the Pacific, census researchers further discovered a new species of furry crab that...
		Near Easter Island, they discovered a ''hairy'' crab with feathery growths on its arms - quickly dubbed...
	www.einnews.com /oceania/newsfeed-easter-island (1088 words)

	Oceania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		' [[Map of Oceania.]] Oceania is a geopolitical region consisting of countries and territories in the Pacific Ocean, usually including Australia.
		Oceania has been traditionally divided into Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia (originally by the French Dumont d'Urville in 1831).
		Parts of the Malay archipelago and West Papua are sometimes included in Oceania as part of Melanesia, especially in an ethnic or liguistic context.
	oceania.iqnaut.net (724 words)

	Hey, hey LBJ! How many containers did you ship today? \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Differences have led to murder on an island near Oceania.
		Tanna is not "an island near Oceania." It's part of Oceania.
		Oceania is a term used to describe the lands of the central and South Pacific, including Melanesia.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/33225 (715 words)

	Human Migratory Patterns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The study, published this week in the science journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, strikes a blow against one popular theory of how remote Pacific islands were colonized, and argues that the migration was a slow and complex process.
		It argues that the Lapita people, who first populated Remote Oceania, represent a second wave of colonists who rapidly swept their way from Taiwan through Southeast Asia and Near Oceania and out into Remote Oceania.
		Advocates believe that the Lapita are the ancestors of the Polynesians and that they had little or no mixing with existing populations in Near Oceania.
	www.crystalinks.com /migrationhuman.html (1652 words)

	UH Press Journals: Asian Perspectives 39 (2000): 189-190
		He doesn't cover quite the same ground of course, since he starts in Pleistocene Near Oceania rather than Southeast Asia; nor does he have the same concentration on artifacts, being of a more anthropological inclination.
		These languages are currently spoken in much of coastal Near Oceania, much more widely in fact than Lapita pottery is found.
		There certainly are still problems in Remote Oceania, perhaps the most important being whether the various expressions of complexity are all simply the result of population growth (p.
	www.uhpress.hawaii.edu /journals/ap/AP39p189.html (993 words)

	Near Oceania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Near Oceania is a region, the part of Oceania that most linguists and scientists consider as one of the natural division of this continent —...
		Lapita and its transformations in Near Oceania: archaeological excavations in the Mussau Islands, Papua New Guinea, 1985-88.
		Lapita and its Transformations in Near Oceania: Archaeological Investigations in the Mussau Islands, Papua New
	www.nearoceania.info (729 words)

	Pacific islands archaeology
		This latter distinction recognizes the Pleistocene settlement of Near Oceania, whereas the widely dispersed islands of Remote Oceania were discovered and settled only within the past 4,000 years.
		Because it was the last sector of Remote Oceania to be settled, and because its populations represent a single radiation or diaspora, Polynesia constitutes a monophyletic cultural and linguistic group.
		When humans first arrived in Remote Oceania, they typically found the islands to be forested, and inhabited by a range of largely endemic species, dominated by birds, along with invertebrates such as landsnails and insects.
	sscl.berkeley.edu /~oal/background/pacislands.htm (2673 words)

	Pacific migrations - The world’s first seafarers - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
		This wider region is known as Near Oceania.
		Remote Oceania lies to the east and south of Near Oceania, and consists of Melanesia south-east of the Solomons, Micronesia and Polynesia.
		After millennia of developments in boat building, and accumulated experience of seafaring in Near Oceania, skilled navigators began to explore in sophisticated canoes.
	www.teara.govt.nz /NewZealanders/MaoriNewZealanders/PacificMigrations/1/en (574 words)

	Oceania and Global Warming
		The Oceania region ranges from the lush tropical mountain ranges of Melanesia to the low lying coral atolls such as the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Tokelau and The Republic of Kiribati.
		The climate is strongly influenced by the ocean and the El Niño phenomenon.
		A subsequent report from Australian researchers indicated that they had now drilled deep into marine sediments off the coast near Christchurch, New Zealand, that were deposited by glaciers in the New Zealand alps.
	www.janesoceania.com /oceania_global_warming/index.htm (2384 words)

	Deciphering Past Human Population Movements in Oceania: Provably Optimal Trees of 127 mtDNA Genomes -- Pierson et al. ...
		Oceania descended from both the existing inhabitants of Near
		Oceania and more recent migrants into the region.
		Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues.
	mbe.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/short/23/10/1966?rss=1 (423 words)

	YOURCOUNTRIES.com: Oceania
		The Independent State of Papua New Guinea is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
		Oceania is a geographical (often geopolitical) region consisting of numerous countries and territories – mostly islands – in the Pacific Ocean.
		Australia is the only continental country, and Papua New Guinea and East Timor are the only countries with land borders, both with Indonesia.
	www.yourcountries.com /oceania.html (789 words)

	Family Tree DNA Forum - Haplogroup B in New Zealand
		The second cluster groups minor haplogroups W, I, and N1b (each of which is present in low frequencies in Europe, the Near East, and the Caucasus).
		Found in remote Oceania, Near Oceania, South East Asia, and a single Native American.
		The highest diversity for these types is in Taiwan, which is "consistent with linguistic evidence of a Taiwanese origin for the proto-Polynesian expansion "throughout Oceania by way of Indonesia.
	www.familytreedna.com /forum/showthread.php?t=1249 (797 words)

	Laputan Logic - The Peopling of the Pacific
		Polynesia, with its dramatic volcanic islands rising out of the South Pacific, was the last area of the world to be settled by people.
		The fossil and archaeological trail shows that humans first set foot in Fiji only 3000 years ago, then sailed on within 500 years to Samoa and Tonga, and later reached Easter Island, Hawaii, and the fringes of remote Oceania, exploring a realm stretching 4500 kilometers.
		This superficial classification stuckeven though the geographic terminology eventually changedand ever since, many researchers have looked beyond the Melanesians of Near Oceania for the ancestors of the Polynesians who populate Remote Oceania (see map).
	www.laputanlogic.com /articles/2002/10/13-83048529.html (532 words)

	Worldwide Phylogeography of Wild Boar Reveals Multiple Centers of Pig Domestication (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For example, S. scrofa was not present on the Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardinia before the seventh millennium B.C. Thus, the extant populations of so-called miniature "wild boar" found on these islands has long been interpreted as a human-aided, prehistoric introduction of wild or domesticated (now feral) pigs.
		This evidence is consistent with a Lapita dispersal from Near to Remote Oceania, but the lack of any genetic affinity between this group and Taiwanese wild boar (Fig.
		This evidence also supports the importance of Halmahera, which has been shown to be the origin of Remote Oceanic populations of the Pacific rat (Rattus exulans) transported by Lapita peoples (24) and the origin of the human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) marker known as the "Polynesian motif" (25).
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-bloggers/1361004/posts (2525 words)

	Pacific migrations - Ancient voyaging in Near Oceania - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
		People living in Near Oceania had highly developed artistic and linguistic abilities, as did those living in Europe at that time.
		The technological ability and motivation to cross expanses of water, land and space are characteristic of modern humans.
		Rafts would have had to be big enough to carry a viable breeding population of at least six women and their mates.
	www.teara.govt.nz /NewZealanders/MaoriNewZealanders/PacificMigrations/2/en (651 words)

	Anthropology Collection Development Policy Statement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Primary collecting emphasis is on North America (including Canada, Central America, Mexico and the United States), Africa, China, Melanesia and Micronesia, the Near East, Oceania, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
		Works in the vernacular languages of South and Southeast Asia, China, the Near East, and Africa (particularly the East and South African Bantu languages) are included in the collection through the efforts of the area studies selectors.
		Works in the vernacular languages of the area studies collections in which anthropology is emphasized, that is, Africa, China, the Near East, and South Asia, are the responsibility of the area studies selectors.
	www.lib.washington.edu /Subject/Anthropology/anthrocd.html (835 words)

	The Friends of Oceania
		Intergraph has a link to our Oceania Images page in their "Online Update" page, as the "What's New for the Week of November 21, 1994" item.
		On March 25th, Oceania was on the "Link of the Week" page run by Ryan A. MacMichael.
		Filaments of the Zodiac, a WWW page of Pacific Northwest artists maintained by Rainshadow Audio Lab on Whidbey Is land in Puget Sound has a link to Oceania under the button Alchemical Resea.
	oceania.org /weblinks.html (1670 words)

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