1. © T. M. Whitmore Last Time SE Asia country details:  Indonesia & Philippines Australia & New Zealand  Physical Geography  Population and density issues  Historical, economic, and cultural  Immigration and Maori & Aboriginal rights

2. © T. M. Whitmore Today Papua New Guinea & the Pacific realm (Oceania)

3. © T. M. Whitmore Papua New Guinea & Oceania I Size, location, and etc  Micro states (thousands of islands and many states)  Spread over thousands of miles of the Pacific  Pacific ~ a hemisphere it self virtually ½ the globe  Total land area is small  Islands <4 x NC  Total area ~ 18x NC  Small pop  Total ~ = NC; > 1/2 in Papua New Guinea

5. © T. M. Whitmore Papua New Guinea & Oceania II Physical geography  Tropical/equatorial wet (AF - AM) or tropical wet/dry climates (Am)  Aside from New Guinea, 2 island types “high” and “low” (i.e., volcanic mountainous islands or low coral reef islands)  Papua New Guinea has large mtn. range

10. © T. M. Whitmore Original settlement & Colonial past Initial settlement  over 3000 yrs from 2500 BC European voyages of “discovery”  1600s – 1700s Complex colonial histories for most Many still colonial possessions  France  USA

15. © T. M. Whitmore International Law of the Sea Territorial waters vs “high seas”  For most = 12 miles Exclusive Economic Zones  200 miles from each land (island)  This an tiny atoll can claim economic rights (minerals & fishing etc.) to an area 200 miles across (166,000 sq mi)

16. John Wiley & Sons.

18. © T. M. Whitmore Melanesia Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji  Some ethnic and linguistic commonality but hundreds of languages  Papua New Guinea  New Caledonia  Fiji

23. © T. M. Whitmore Micronesia Mostly micro-sized low islands — former UN sponsored USA trust area from former Japanese holdings from WWI  Marshall Islands  open air H-bomb nuclear tests  Bikini the article of clothing got its name from the island in the 1950s when the H-bomb tests occurred there

25. © T. M. Whitmore Polynesia Hawaii to N. New Zealand  Samoa, Tahiti, Hawaii, etc.  Amazingly wide spread culture  Tourism is main industry

28. © W.H. Freeman & Co.