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Captain Cook: The Life, Death and Legacy of History's Greatest Explorer. Ebury Press. ISBN 0-09-188898-0. Hough, Richard (1994). Captain James Cook. Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-82556-1. Kirch, Patrick Vinton (2001). On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact. University of California ...
History portal; Oceania portal; Subcategories. ... Pages in category "Archaeological sites in Oceania" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Slide Mountain Ocean, the Mesozoic ocean between the ancient Intermontane Islands (that is, Wrangellia) and North America; South Anuyi Ocean, Mesozoic ocean related to the formation of the Arctic Ocean; Tethys Ocean, the ocean between the ancient continents of Gondwana and Laurasia; Thalassa Ocean, the eastern part of the early Mesozoic ...
Hutton Webster's 1919 book Medieval and Modern History also considered Oceania to encompass all islands in the Pacific, stating that, "the term Oceania, or Oceanica, in its widest sense applies to all the Pacific Islands." Webster broke Oceania up into two subdivisions; the continental group, which included Australia, the Japanese archipelago ...
Zealandia (pronounced / z iː ˈ l æ n d i ə /), also known as Te Riu-a-Māui [2] or Tasmantis (from Tasman Sea), [3] [4] is an almost entirely submerged mass of continental crust in Oceania that subsided after breaking away from Gondwana 83–79 million years ago. [5]
The list below includes all sites located geographically within Oceania, and is constructed without reference to UNESCO's statistical divisions. [8] The list comprises a number of sites for which the state party is outside the region, but the site itself is located in Oceania; this includes sites belonging to Chile (Rapa Nui National Park), France (Lagoons of New Caledonia and Taputapuātea ...
Timelines of cities in Oceania (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "History of Oceania" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 26– 45. ISBN 978-0-19-992507-0. Oliver, Douglas L. (1961). The Pacific Islands. New York: The American Museum of Natural History. Thomas, Nicholas (June 2021). "From Sunda to Sahul: the first crossings and early settlement of the Pacific". Natural History.