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European exploration and settlement of Oceania began in the 16th century, starting with the Spanish landings and shipwrecks in the Mariana Islands, east of the Philippines. This was followed by the Portuguese landing and settling temporarily (due to the monsoons) in some of the Caroline Islands and Papua New Guinea. Several Spanish landings in ...
The history of Oceania includes the history of Australia, Easter Island, ... For a long time this was the only non-coastal European settlement in the Pacific.
The colonisation of Oceania includes: Colonisation of Australia; Colonisation of New Zealand; Colonisation of the Pacific islands; See also. Europeans in Oceania;
Pages in category "European colonisation in Oceania" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The first contact of European navigators with the western edge of the Pacific Ocean was made by the Portuguese expeditions of António de Abreu and Francisco Serrão, via the Lesser Sunda Islands, to the Maluku Islands, in 1512, [5] [6] and with Jorge Álvares's expedition to southern China in 1513, [7] both ordered by Afonso de Albuquerque ...
The study proposed the hypothesis that the sister C1e and C1f subclades had split early from the most recent common ancestor of the C1 clade and had evolved independently, and that subclade C1e had a northern European origin. Iceland was settled by the Vikings in the 9th century and they had raided heavily into western Russia, where the sister ...
The first settlers of Australia, New Guinea, and the large islands just to the east arrived more than 60,000 years ago. [13] Oceania was first explored by Europeans from the 16th century onward. Portuguese explorers, between 1512 and 1526, reached the Tanimbar Islands, some of the Caroline Islands and west New Guinea. Spanish and Dutch ...
Oceania is commonly divided into four geographic sub-regions, characterized by shared cultural, religious, linguistic, and ethnic traits: Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Most Oceanian countries are multi-party representative parliamentary democracies , and tourism is a large source of income for the Pacific Islands nations.