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Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Oceania

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Ifyou turn a globe just so, all you can see is the Pacific Ocean, the earth's largest geographic feature. Its estimated area of some 181 million square kilometers is greater than that of all of the world's land areas combined; however, even when Aus. tralia is included, the Pacific contains only about 9 million square kilometers of dry land. The rest consists of more than half ofthe world's volume of free water, with an average depth of over 4,000 meters and reaching depths over 10,600 meters in the Mariana Trench, just south of Guam. From the Bering Strait in the north to the Antarctic Circle is a distance of more than 14,700 kilometers, and to cross the Pacific at its greatest width, between Singapore and Panama, one must travel about 19,700 kilometers. A first impression of Oceania, then, is one of vast size and distances.

Perhaps not surprising in the face of such immensity (especially to the modem air traveler), the most characteristic feature of the Pacific Ocean is emptiness. Although it contains more islands than are found in all other oceans combined, the overwhelming majority of the tens of thousands of islands of Oceania are in the southwestern quadrant of the Pacific. But this is still a very large area, and it includes some island groups that will not be considered in this volume. Japan, the Philippines, and most ofIndonesia are covered in a later volume of this encyclopedia that deals with East and Southeast Asia. Here we will be concerned with the island continent of Australia, New Guinea, and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia (see map 1). Thus the scope of this volume is limited, but it still encompasses a huge area that is astoundingly diverse.
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