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Oceania was first explored by Europeans from the 16th century onwards. Portuguese navigators, between 1512 and 1526, reached the Moluccas (by António de Abreu and Francisco Serrão in 1512), Timor , the Aru Islands (Martim A. Melo Coutinho), the Tanimbar Islands , some of the Caroline Islands (by Gomes de Sequeira in 1525), and west Papua New ...
Pages in category "Prehistoric vertebrates of Oceania" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a list of Oceanian species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) [a] and continues to the present day. [1] Oceania is a geographical region in the Pacific Ocean comprising Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania (2018) defined Oceania as only covering Austronesian-speaking islands in Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, with this definition including New Guinea and New Zealand. Other Austronesian areas such as Indonesia and the Philippines were not included, due to their closer cultural proximity to mainland Asia.
Prehistoric animals of Prehistoric Oceania This category is for Animals of Oceania that are only known from fossils. For species extinct since European colonisation see Extinct animals of Oceania .
The prehistoric peopling of Oceania took place through two major expansion movements. The first occurred between 50 and 70,000 years ago and brought Homo sapiens hunter-gatherers from continental Asia to populate Insulindia, then nearby Oceania, i.e. New Guinea, Australia, and certain Melanesian islands.