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Melanesia (general region) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 07 02 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -7.0330 decimal degrees |
Long: 152 44 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 152.7330 decimal degrees |
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Note: Ethnographic subdivision of Oceania containing widely scattered islands and atolls northeast of Australia, including New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Admiralty Islands, Bismark Archipelago, Fiji, and New Guinea; inhabitants are of Australoid origin. |
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Melanesia (preferred,C,V,English-P)
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Melanesian (C,V)
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מלנזיה (C,U,Hebrew )
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Меланезія (C,U,Ukrainian)
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Меланезия (C,U,Russian)
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