Melanesia | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-01

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
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00:00:59 1 Etymology
00:06:06 2 History
00:08:39 3 Languages
00:10:06 4 Geography
00:13:19 5 Political geography
00:14:33 6 Genetic studies
00:15:21 7 See also



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Melanesia (UK: , US: ) is a subregion of Oceania extending from New Guinea island in the southwestern  Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji.
The region includes the four independent countries of Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Fiji,  and Papua New Guinea, as well as the French special collectivity of New Caledonia, and the Indonesian region of Western New Guinea. Most of the region is in the Southern Hemisphere, with a few small northwestern islands of Western New Guinea in the Northern Hemisphere.
The name Melanesia (in French Mélanésie) was first used by Jules Dumont d'Urville in 1832 to denote an ethnic and geographical grouping of islands whose inhabitants he thought were distinct from those of Micronesia and Polynesia.