Melanesia
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Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It extends from New Guinea in the west to the Fiji Islands in the east, and includes the Arafura Sea. Melanesia borders Southeast
A pan flute from Solomon Islands, 19th century
Sailors of Melanesia in the Pacific Ocean, 1846
A Melanesian child from Vanuatu
Aerial view of Solomon Islands
Fiji
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Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an archipelagic country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about 1,100 nautical miles north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji cons
Melanesia
…Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It extends from New Guinea in the west to the Fiji Islands in the east, and includes the Arafura Sea. Melanesia borders Southeast Asia to the west, Polynesia to the east, Micronesia to the north and Australia…
A Fijian mountain warrior. Photograph by Francis Herbert Dufty, 1870s
Bure-kalou or temple
Levuka, 1842
Ratu Tanoa Visawaqa