Melanesia$47663$ - перевод на голландский
![Sailors of Melanesia in the [[Pacific Ocean]], 1846](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Atlas pittoresque pl 096.jpg?width=200 "Sailors of Melanesia in the [[Pacific Ocean]], 1846")
![A pan flute from [[Solomon Islands]], 19th century](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flute de pan MHNT ETH AC NH 31 Savès.jpg?width=200 "A pan flute from [[Solomon Islands]], 19th century")
![Köppen-Geiger climate classification]] map of Melanesia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Koppen-Geiger Map Melanesia present.svg?width=200 "Köppen-Geiger climate classification]] map of Melanesia")
![Map showing the [[sovereignty]] of islands of Melanesia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mapa Melanesia.png?width=200 "Map showing the [[sovereignty]] of islands of Melanesia")
![The three major cultural areas in the [[Pacific Ocean]]: Melanesia, [[Micronesia]], and [[Polynesia]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pacific Culture Areas.png?width=200 "The three major cultural areas in the [[Pacific Ocean]]: Melanesia, [[Micronesia]], and [[Polynesia]]")
![[[Mount Tavurvur]] in [[Papua New Guinea]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tarvurvur.jpg?width=200 "[[Mount Tavurvur]] in [[Papua New Guinea]]")
![Cinder plain of [[Mount Yasur]] in [[Vanuatu]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vanuatu Tanna Yasur.JPG?width=200 "Cinder plain of [[Mount Yasur]] in [[Vanuatu]]")
![Melanesian]] child from [[Vanuatu]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vanuatu blonde.jpg?width=200 "Melanesian]] child from [[Vanuatu]]")
Википедия
Melanesia (UK: , US: ) is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It extends from New Guinea in the west to the Fiji Islands in the east, and includes the Arafura Sea.
The region includes the four independent countries of Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea. It also includes the Indonesian part of New Guinea, the French oversea collectivity of New Caledonia, and the Torres Strait Islands. Almost all of the region is in the Southern Hemisphere; only a few small islands that are not politically considered part of Oceania—specifically the northwestern islands of Western New Guinea—lie in the Northern Hemisphere.
The name Melanesia (in French, Mélanésie) was first used in 1832 by French navigator Jules Dumont d'Urville: he coined the terms Melanesia and Micronesia along the preexisting Polynesia to designate what he viewed as the three main ethnic and geographical regions forming the Pacific.
