Micronesia
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Micronesia is a subregion of Oceania, consisting of about 2,000 small islands in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. It has a close shared cultural history with three other island regions: Maritime Southeast Asia to the west, Polynesia to the east, and Melanesia to the south—as well as with the wider community of Austronesian peoples.
Tarawa Atoll
Mount Marpi in Saipan.
Beach scenery at Laura, Majuro, Marshall Islands
Image of the Castle Bravo nuclear test, detonated on 1 March 1954, at Bikini Atoll
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.
A pan flute from Solomon Islands, 19th century
Sailors of Melanesia in the Pacific Ocean, 1846
A Melanesian child from Vanuatu
Mount Tavurvur in Papua New Guinea