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Pacific Islands
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geographic region consisting of the islands of the Pacific Ocean
Research
75,736 papers- Pacific Healthy Islands Vision: success factors and challenges faced by health promotion programs.Health promotion international · 2023
- Saving the Pacific islands from extinction.Lancet (London, England) · 2019
- Universal Health Coverage and the Pacific Islands: An Overview of Senior Leaders' Discussions, Challenges, Priorities and Solutions, 2015-2020.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
- Drivers of human Leptospira infection in the Pacific Islands: A systematic review.Epidemiology and infection · 2024
- The use of home brew in Pacific Islands countries and territories.Journal of ethnicity in substance abuse · 2018
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Pacific Ocean
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- different from
- Insular Oceania
- topic's main category
- Category:Islands of the Pacific Ocean
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Encyclopedic overview
The islands in the Pacific Ocean divided into three major groups The islands in the Pacific Ocean are categorized into three major island groups: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Depending on the context, the term Pacific Islands may refer to one of several concepts: (1) those Pacific islands whose people have Austronesian origins, (2) the Pacific islands once or currently colonized after 1500 CE, (3) the geographical region of Oceania, or (4) any island located in the Pacific Ocean. Inhabitants of the Pacific islands are known as Pacific Islanders.
This list of islands in the Pacific Ocean is organized by archipelago or political boundary. In order to keep this list of moderate size, the more complete lists for countries with large numbers of small or uninhabited islands have been hyperlinked.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pacific Islands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.