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

Preferred term

Pacific Islands  

Type

  • Geographical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Pacific Island

Note

  • includes MELANESIA; MICRONESIA & POLYNESIA: see notes under each & indentions in trees

Scope note

  • The islands of the Pacific Ocean divided into MICRONESIA; MELANESIA; and POLYNESIA (including NEW ZEALAND). The collective name Oceania includes the aforenamed islands, adding AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; and the Malay Archipelago (INDONESIA). (Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p910, 880)

History note

  • 78; was SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS 1967-77

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010139

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