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Geographic Locations > Islands > Pacific Islands > Melanesia
Environment and Public Health > Environment > Islands > Pacific Islands > Melanesia
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Islands > Pacific Islands > Melanesia
Geographic Locations > Oceania > Australasia > Pacific Islands > Melanesia

Preferred term

Melanesia  

Type

  • Geographical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • British Solomon Islands
  • Norfolk Island
  • Solomon Islands

Note

  • a group of islands northeast of Australia; includes, in addition to indentions & X refs, Norfolk Island; Melanesians are of Negroid race unless otherwise specified

Scope note

  • The collective name for the islands of the Pacific Ocean northeast of Australia, including NEW CALEDONIA; VANUATU; New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Admiralty Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, FIJI, etc. Melanesia (from the Greek melas, black + nesos, island) is so called from the black color of the natives who are generally considered to be descended originally from the Negroid Papuans and the Polynesians or Malays. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p748 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p344)

History note

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008542

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