Malay Archipelago
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The Malay Archipelago is the archipelago between Mainland Southeast Asia and Australia, and is also called Insulindia or the Indo-Australian Archipelago. The name was taken from the 19th-century Europ
Pinisi sailing ship exploring Komodo island, part of Lesser Sunda Islands
One of the majority of uninhabited islands of the Philippines.
Oceania
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Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Oceania is also described as a continent, with mainland Australia regarded as its continental landmass.
Malay Archipelago
…More common in Portuguese and Spanish, it is also sometimes used in art history or anthropology to describe the interface zone between the cultures of Oceania and Southeast Asia. Insulindia is used as a geopolitical term in academic discussions of the former European colonial possessions within Maritime…
A 19th-century engraving of an Aboriginal Australian encampment
Stone money transport to Yap Island in Micronesia (1880)
Moai at Ahu Tongariki on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
New Zealand troops land on Vella Lavella, in Solomon Islands