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• SE Asia country details
• Indonesia Philippines
• Australia New Zealand
• Physical Geography
• Population and density issues
• Historical, economic, and cultural
• Immigration and Maori Aboriginal rights

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• Papua New Guinea the Pacific realm (Oceania)

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Papua New Guinea Oceania I

• Size, location, and etc
• Micro states (thousands of islands and many
  states)
• Spread over thousands of miles of the Pacific
• Pacific a hemisphere it self virtually ½ the
  globe
• Total land area is small
• Islands lt4 x NC
• Total area 18x NC
• Small pop
• Total NC gt 1/2 in Papua New Guinea

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Papua New Guinea Oceania II

• Physical geography
• Tropical/equatorial wet (AF - AM) or tropical
  wet/dry climates (Am)
• Aside from New Guinea, 2 island types high and
  low (i.e., volcanic mountainous islands or low
  coral reef islands)
• Papua New Guinea has large mtn. range

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Original settlement Colonial past

• Initial settlement
• over 3000 yrs from 2500 BC
• European voyages of discovery
• 1600s 1700s
• Complex colonial histories for most
• Many still colonial possessions
• France
• USA

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International Law of the Sea

• Territorial waters vs high seas
• For most 12 miles
• Exclusive Economic Zones
• 200 miles from each land (island)
• This an tiny atoll can claim economic rights
  (minerals fishing etc.) to an area 200 miles
  across (166,000 sq mi)

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Melanesia

• Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia,
  Vanuatu, Fiji
• Some ethnic and linguistic commonality but
  hundreds of languages
• Papua New Guinea
• New Caledonia
• Fiji

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Micronesia

• Mostly micro-sized low islands former UN
  sponsored USA trust area from former Japanese
  holdings from WWI
• Marshall Islands
• open air H-bomb nuclear tests
• Bikini the article of clothing got its name from
  the island in the 1950s when the H-bomb tests
  occurred there

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Polynesia

• Hawaii to N. New Zealand
• Samoa, Tahiti, Hawaii, etc.
• Amazingly wide spread culture
• Tourism is main industry

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