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Pacific Islands houses on stilts, Papua New Guinea Culture areas of the Pacific Islands volcanic peaks, French Polynesia
Learn through an animation about the formation of the volcanic island chains like Hawaii and Samoa
islet of Bairiki, Kiribati traditionally dressed dancers, Solomon Islands Bora-Bora Lapita pottery Oceanic voyages of Ferdinand Magellan and his crew, 1519–22
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Learn through an animation about the formation of the volcanic island chains like Hawaii and Samoa
A computer visualization of the process by which volcanic island chains are formed....
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Pacific Islands
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houses on stilts, Papua New Guinea
Houses on stilts, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
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Culture areas of the Pacific Islands
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volcanic peaks, French Polynesia
Volcanic peaks of Bora-Bora, a high volcanic island surrounded by a lagoon, Society...
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islet of Bairiki, Kiribati
Islet of Bairiki, Tarawa atoll, Kiribati.
Richard Vogel—AP/REX/Shutterstock.com
traditionally dressed dancers, Solomon Islands
Traditionally dressed dancers in Honiara, Solomon Islands.
© Tim Rooke/REX/Shutterstock.com
Bora-Bora
Offshore hut, Bora-Bora, French Polynesia.
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Lapita pottery
Lapita pottery, reconstructed two-dimensional anthropomorphic design, c. 1000
Courtesy of R.C. Green
William Dampier
William Dampier.
Courtesy of the American Geographical Society
Admiral John Byron
Admiral John Byron.
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sugarcane agriculture, Fiji
Farmers transporting a load of sugarcane near Natandola, on the island of Viti Levu,...
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U.S. Marines on Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1944
U.S. Marines advancing against Japanese positions on Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1944.
U.S. Department of Defense
Pacific Ocean islands, including New Zealand
Map of the islands of the Pacific Ocean, including New Zealand, c. 1902, from the...
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Oceanic voyages of Ferdinand Magellan and his crew, 1519–22
The first circumnavigation of the globe was led by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand...
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