Melanesja

Melanesja hija subreġjun tal -Oċeanja fil-Lbiċ tal- Oċean Paċifiku . Jestendi mill -Ginea Ġdida fil-punent sal- Gżejjer Fiġi fil-lvant, ^[1] ^[2] ^[3] u jinkludi l- Baħar Arafura .^{[ ċitazzjoni meħtieġa ]}

Ir-reġjun jinkludi l-erba' pajjiżi indipendenti tal -Fiġi, Vanuatu, il-Gżejjer Solomon, u l-Papwa Ginea Ġdida . Jinkludi wkoll il- parti Indoneżjana tal-Ginea Ġdida, il- kollettività barranija Franċiża ta' New Caledonia, u l- Gżejjer tal-Istrett ta' Torres . Barra minn hekk, il-Gżejjer Maluku tal-Indoneżja u n-nazzjon indipendenti ta ' Timor-Leste huma kulturalment assoċjati mal-Melanesja. Kważi kollha tar-reġjun huwa fl- Emisferu tan-Nofsinhar ; ftit gżejjer żgħar biss li mhumiex politikament meqjusa bħala parti mill-Oċeanja—speċifikament il-gżejjer tal-majjistral tal-Punent tal-Ginea Ġdida—jinsab fl- Emisferu tat-Tramuntana .

L-isem Melanesja (bil-Franċiż, Mélanésie ) intuża għall-ewwel darba fl-1832 min-navigatur Franċiż Jules Dumont d'Urville : huwa ħoloq it-termini Melanesja u Mikronesja biex imur flimkien mal- Polineżja preeżistenti biex jindika dak li kien iqis bħala t-tliet etniċi u ġeografiċi ewlenin. reġjuni li jiffurmaw il-Paċifiku.

Referenzi

^ Keesing, Roger M.; Kahn, Miriam (21 April 2023). "Melanesian culture". Encyclopædia Britannica. Miġbur 23 April 2023. [...] Pacific Islands known as Melanesia. From northwest to southeast, the islands form an arc that begins with New Guinea (the western half of which is called Papua and is part of Indonesia, and the eastern half of which comprises the independent country of Papua New Guinea) and continues through the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides), New Caledonia, Fiji, and numerous smaller islands.
^ Matthews, P. H. (2014). Melanesia. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-967512-8. Miġbur 23 April 2023. Group of islands in the south-west Pacific running from New Guinea in the west to Fiji in the east.
^ Bedford, Stuart (2014). "Melanesia". The Cambridge World Prehistory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 622–631. doi:10.1017/CHO9781139017831.043. ISBN 9781139017831. Melanesia, home to some 7 million people, covers a vast geographic region of the Southwest Pacific, comprising more than ten thousand islands, ranging from New Guinea, the world’s second largest at some 785,753 km², to a myriad of high volcanic islands through to small low atolls, stretching for thousands of kilometres across the Pacific Ocean.

[1] Keesing, Roger M.; Kahn, Miriam (21 April 2023). "Melanesian culture". Encyclopædia Britannica. Miġbur 23 April 2023. [...] Pacific Islands known as Melanesia. From northwest to southeast, the islands form an arc that begins with New Guinea (the western half of which is called Papua and is part of Indonesia, and the eastern half of which comprises the independent country of Papua New Guinea) and continues through the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides), New Caledonia, Fiji, and numerous smaller islands.

[2] Matthews, P. H. (2014). Melanesia. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-967512-8. Miġbur 23 April 2023. Group of islands in the south-west Pacific running from New Guinea in the west to Fiji in the east.

[3] Bedford, Stuart (2014). "Melanesia". The Cambridge World Prehistory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 622–631. doi:10.1017/CHO9781139017831.043. ISBN 9781139017831. Melanesia, home to some 7 million people, covers a vast geographic region of the Southwest Pacific, comprising more than ten thousand islands, ranging from New Guinea, the world’s second largest at some 785,753 km², to a myriad of high volcanic islands through to small low atolls, stretching for thousands of kilometres across the Pacific Ocean.

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