Oceania
Oceania geopoliticalis
Oceania est regio in insulis Oceani Pacifici tropici sita.[1] Notiones Oceaniae inter atolla curalii volcanicasque Pacifici Australis insulas (ethnologice in subregiones Melanesiam, Micronesiam, Polynesiam divisas[2]) et adeo omnem regionem insularem inter Asiam et Americam (Australasia Archipelago Malaicoque non exceptis) variantur.[3] Nomen aliquando adhibetur diserte ad significandum continentem qui in Australia et insulis proximis consistit,[4][5][6][7][8] atque in studiis biogeographicis ut synonymum Oecozonae Australasianae (Wallaceae et Australasiae) vel Oecozona Pacifica (Melanesia, Polynesia, et Micronesia, vel Nova Zelandia[9] vel Nova Guinea excepta[10]).
- ↑ Pro historia nominis, vide Douglas et Ballard (2008).
- ↑ "Oceania," The Columbia Encyclopedia, ed. sexta (Columbia University Press, 2005).
- ↑ The Oxford English Dictionary (Oxoniae: Clarendon Press, 1989), 20 voll.
- ↑ Lapsus in citando: Invalid
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- ↑ Composition of macro geographical (continental) regions, geographical sub-regions, and selected economic and other groupings, United Nations Statistics Division. Retractatus 28 Augusti 2007.
- ↑ The Atlas of Canada. Retractatus 17 Augusti 2004.
- ↑ "Encarta Mexico "Oceanía"". Mx.encarta.msn.com .
- ↑ "The answer [from a scholar who sought to calculate the number of continents] conformed almost precisely to the conventional list: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Australia plus New Zealand), Africa, and Antarctica," Martin W. Lewis et Kären E. Wigen, The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, ISBN 0-520-20742-4, ISBN 0-520-20743-2), p. 32.
- ↑ Udvardy, A classification of the biogeographical provinces of the world (1975).
- ↑ Steadman, Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds (2006).