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The U.S. protectorate of Guam is a part of Micronesia, as is Palau, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, and the Federated States of Micronesia, a nation that is a part of the Caroline Island group. Many of the Micronesian islands were settled as long as four thousand years ago, likely by Southeast Asians.
Similarly, the Polynesian islands were once settled by Southeast Asians, who arrived via Indonesia. Polynesia, meaning "many islands," consists of New Zealand (Aotearoa), the Hawaiian Islands, Midway Atoll, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, and Easter Island (Rapa Nui). The Pacific Islands were first settled by human beings as early as 33,000 years ago. However, the ancestors of the peoples who now reside in Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia mainly hailed from Southeast Asia, such as the Malay people. Throughout many of the Pacific Islands, agriculture and civilizations have evolved with minimum technologies, largely due to the scarcity of natural resources like metal. Using simple stone tools and even stone currencies, cultures of this region developed remarkably sophisticated and complex civilizations that survived until and in some cases past European contact and colonialism. Erosion of coastline and coastal infrastructure, crop and fishery failure, and the spread of tropical diseases like dengue fever and malaria could also be negative consequences of global climate change in the Pacific Islands.
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Works Cited
Ogden, Michael R. "Pacific Islands Resources: Introduction." 1996. Online at http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ogden/piir/pacintro.html.
Pacific Islands." Wikipedia.com. Online at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_island.
Pacific Islands Climate Change Report Released." Nov. 21, 2001. Online at http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/EASTASIAPACIFICEXT/PACIFICISLANDSEXTN/0,contentMDK:20015267~menuPK:441907~pagePK:141137~piPK:141127~theSitePK:441883,00.html.
Works Cited
Ogden, Michael R. "Pacific Islands Resources: Introduction." 1996. Online at http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ogden/piir/pacintro.html.
Pacific Islands." Wikipedia.com. Online at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_island.
Pacific Islands Climate Change Report Released." Nov. 21, 2001. Online at http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/EASTASIAPACIFICEXT/PACIFICISLANDSEXTN/0,contentMDK:20015267~menuPK:441907~pagePK:141137~piPK:141127~theSitePK:441883,00.html.
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