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The 2007 book Asia in the Pacific Islands: Replacing the West, by New Zealand Pacific scholar Ron Crocombe, considers the phrase Pacific Islands to politically encompass American Samoa, Australia, the Bonin Islands, the Cook Islands, Easter Island, East Timor, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, the Galápagos Islands, Guam, Hawaii, the Kermadec Islands, Kiribati, Lord Howe ...
Fiji's location in Oceania Topography of Fiji Fiji is an Oceanian archipelago of volcanic islands with two main islands in the South Pacific , lying about 1,770 km (1,100 mi) north of New Zealand and 4,450 kilometres (2,765 mi) southwest of Honolulu .
Fiji lies approximately 5,100 km (3,200 mi) southwest of Hawaii and roughly 3,150 km (1,960 mi) from Sydney, Australia. [96] [97] Fiji is the hub of the Southwest Pacific, midway between Vanuatu and Tonga. The archipelago is located between 176° 53′ east and 178° 12′ west.
Loose scattered archipelago of eight Pacific insular areas with one Caribbean (Navassa Island) Continental shelf United States: 41 16 300 7.3 19 Pacific Ocean, Micronesia, Polynesia, and Caribbean Sea U.S. Virgin Islands [n 17] Archipelago: Continental shelf United States: 346 134 87,146 [13] 252 650 Caribbean Sea, Lesser Antilles Wallis and Futuna
The Polynesian Triangle is a geographical region of the Pacific Ocean with Hawaii (Hawaiʻi) (1), New Zealand (Aotearoa) (2) and Easter Island (Rapa Nui) (3) at its corners, but excluding Fiji on its western side. At the center is Tahiti (5), with Samoa (4) to the west.
Peoples of the Pacific, published by Pacific House in San Francisco, 1940. The population of the Pacific Islands is concentrated in Papua New Guinea, New Zealand (which has a majority of people of European descent), Hawaii, Fiji, and Solomon Islands. Most Pacific Islands are densely populated, and habitation tends to be concentrated along the ...
Hawaii State of Hawaii State of the United States: English: Hawaii — State of Hawaii Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi — Mokuʻāina o Hawaiʻi: Honolulu: 1,404,054 [30] 28,311 km 2 (10,931 sq mi) Highland Papua Highland Papua Province Province of Indonesia: Indonesian: Papua Pegunungan: Jayawijaya Regency: 1,408,641 [32] 108,476 km 2 (41,883 sq mi ...
This is a list of islands of Fiji. Fiji is an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. It is split into 9 separate geographic island groups. The smallest is the Conway Reef Islands and Skerries, and the largest is the Vanua Levu Group.