Part of Oceania settled within the last 3,000 to 3,500 years
Map showing islands of Remote Oceania in redMap displaying a section of Remote Oceania
Remote Oceania is the part of Oceania first settled within the last 5,000 to 5,500 years (i.e. since 3500 BC), comprising (first inhabitants) the Chamorro from the Marianas Islands, all Micronesian Islands (such as the Caroline Islands including Palau, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae and the Line Islands including Kiribati), south-eastern Island Melanesia and islands in the open Pacific east of the Solomon Islands: Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Polynesia, the Santa Cruz Islands, and Vanuatu.[1]
^Steadman, 2006. Extinction & biogeography of tropical Pacific birds
RemoteOceania is the part of Oceania first settled within the last 5,000 to 5,500 years (i.e. since 3500 BC), comprising (first inhabitants) the Chamorro...
terms Near Oceania and RemoteOceania were proposed in 1973 by anthropologists Roger Green and Andrew Pawley. By their definition, Near Oceania consists...
and atolls being closer to each other. The distinction of Near and RemoteOceania was first suggested by Pawley & Green (1973) and was further elaborated...
part of Oceania. Remoter islands such as France's Clipperton (1,100 kilometers from Mexico's coast) are even more commonly associated with Oceania, with...
Maritime Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Near Oceania, Oceania, Pacific Islands, RemoteOceania, Polynesia, and Wallacea. In Indonesia, the nationalistic...
in RemoteOceania. Incidentally it is also the first and the longest of the ocean-crossing voyages of the Austronesian peoples into RemoteOceania, and...
they could be interpreted as one of the smaller linguistic groups in Oceania. Remoter and more uninhabitable islands adjacent to Micronesia may have had...
navigation East Melanesian Islands Near OceaniaRemoteOceania Central–Eastern Oceanic languages Oceanic languages Remote Oceanic languages Southern Oceanic...
Vanuatu languages Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press. Oceanic languages RemoteOceania...
Mussay to Samoa.: 19 Lapita pottery has been found in Near Oceania as well as RemoteOceania, as far west as the Bismarck Archipelago, as far east as Samoa...
with the Mariana Islands, were the first islands settled by humans in RemoteOceania. It was also the first and the longest of the ocean-crossing voyages...
Austronesian peoples. They were carried and introduced deliberately to RemoteOceania as canoe plants. In modern times, it has been introduced throughout...
of which Tinian is one, were the first islands settled by humans in RemoteOceania. It was also the first and the longest of the ocean-crossing voyages...
29 April 2010. Pietrusewsky, Michael (2006). "Initial Settlement of remoteOceania: the evidence from physical anthropology". In Simanjuntak, T.; Pojoh...
in RemoteOceania. Incidentally it is also the first and the longest of the ocean-crossing voyages of the Austronesian peoples into RemoteOceania, and...
technologies were related to the later steps of settlement into Near and RemoteOceania. Starting at around 2200 BCE, Austronesians sailed southwards to settle...
Congress. The Mariana Islands were the first islands settled by humans in RemoteOceania. Incidentally their settlement was the first and longest of the ocean-crossing...
New Guinea around 1500 BCE and colonized many uninhabited islands of RemoteOceania, reaching as far as Samoa by 700 BCE. In the Americas, the Norte Chico...
primarily contributed to humans living in East and Southeast Asia, much of RemoteOceania, as well as Siberia and the Americas. Represented by ancient Tianyuan...
2020. Sheppard, Peter J. (2011). "Lapita Colonization across the Near/RemoteOceania Boundary". Current Anthropology. 52 (6): 799–840. doi:10.1086/662201...
Carson MT, Bellwood P, Campos FZ (2011). "The first settlement of RemoteOceania: The Philippines to the Marianas". Antiquity. 85 (329): 909–926. doi:10...
Austronesian expansion (c. 5,000 BP) as canoe plants, reaching as far as RemoteOceania. 'Awapuhi is said to be one of the Kinolau, multiple forms, of the Hawaiian...
Louise A.; Oxenham, Marc; Chi, Zhang (2015). "The first settlement of RemoteOceania: the Philippines to the Marianas". Antiquity. 85 (329): 909–926. doi:10...
Tuvalu Wallis and Futuna Alo Sigave Uvea by human geography: Near OceaniaRemoteOceania by economics: Pacific Community Pacific Islands Forum Pacific Regional...
first island as well as the Mariana Islands, inhabited by humans in RemoteOceania. Guam has since been occupied by outside entities for over 330 years...
ISBN 9780306460920. Retrieved 1 February 2022. The human colonization of remoteOceania occurred in the late Holocene. Prehistoric human explorers missed only...
the direct ancestors of the modern Polynesians. They ventured into RemoteOceania reaching Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Fiji by 1200 BCE, and Samoa and...
'Island Southeast Asia'. e.g.: Philippines, Indonesia), Near Oceania (Melanesia), RemoteOceania (Micronesia and Polynesia), Madagascar, and the Comoros Islands...
first inhabited by humans — from 70,000 years ago (Near Oceania) to 3,000 years ago (RemoteOceania). Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants...
Global Information
