Examples of use of Melanesia
1. John Pihavaka of the Anglican Church of Melanesia visited Friday, bringing Easter–time words of encouragement.
2. "We‘ve only scratched the surface," said Mr Beehler, who is the vice president of Conservation International‘s Melanesia Center for Biodiversity Conservation.
3. Approaching them by sea, the islands appear to be everyone‘s imagination of a lost paradise, an idyllic dot in Melanesia where there are no cars, no electricity, no tv, no phones – no contact at all with the outside world except a cargo ship from the "mainland", Bougainville, which brings supplies of rice and tinned foods.
4. His PhD dissertation on the contribution of skull measurement in understanding the population history of Melanesia began a lifelong commitment to an inclusive physical anthropology and human biology, to the Pacific, to craniometry and statistical analysis, and to the evolution of our genus, Homo.