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Natives and Exotics: World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-3265-0. Lindstrom, Lamont; White, Geoffrey Miles; Center, East-West (September 17, 1990). Island Encounters: Black and White Memories of the Pacific War. Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 978-0-87474-457-6.
He considers it to encompass areas that were involved in the Pacific Theater of World War II. These areas include the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, as well as Australia, the Aleutian Islands, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan. [16] 1851 map of Pacific listing colonial names of individual islands.
Map of French Polynesia Bora Bora, Leeward Islands. The islands of French Polynesia make up a total land area of 3,521 square kilometres (1,359 sq mi), [2] scattered over more than 2,000 km (1,200 miles) of ocean. There are 121 islands in French Polynesia and many more islets or motu s around atolls. [5] The highest point is Mount Orohena on ...
Caroline Islands north of the Melanesia Islands A map of the Federated States of Micronesia Micronesia is one of three major areas in the Pacific Ocean, along with Polynesia and Melanesia US Naval Base Carolines included a number of United States Navy bases on the Caroline Islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea during ...
The nearest islands are Tonga to the south (British protectorate from 1900 to 1970), Fiji (British colony from 1874 to 1970) to the southwest, and the Ellice Islands and Gilbert Islands (British protectorates from 1892 to the 1970s, now Tuvalu and Kiribati) to the north, Tokelau (British protectorate, included in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in 1916) to the northeast, and Samoa to the east ...
Naval Base Ulithi's Sorlen Island and the north anchorage of Ulithi Atoll in late 1944 Naval Base Ulithi in the Caroline Islands, north of the Melanesia Islands A map of the Federated States of Micronesia Micronesia is one of three major areas in the Pacific Ocean, along with Polynesia and Melanesia Mississinewa sinking at Ulithi after a Kaiten manned torpedo hit Mississinewa sinking on 20 ...
Map of Pitcairn Islands. The history of the Pitcairn Islands begins with the colonization of the islands by Polynesians in the 11th century. Polynesian people established a culture that flourished for four centuries and then vanished.
The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II. United States Army Center of Military History. CMH Pub 72-29. Archived from the original on 3 February 2012; Burbeck, James (2008). "Invasion of Peleliu". Animated Combat Map. The War Times Journal; Gayle, Gordon, BGen USMC. "Bloody Beaches: The Marines at Peleliu"