Austronesia (Noun)
Meaning
Islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia).
Classification
Nouns denoting spatial position.
Examples
- Austronesia spans thousands of islands and vast ocean areas of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
- Researchers trace the dispersal of the Austronesia to various areas around 1000 BC from a mainland that comprised both islands of Indonesia.
- However this trend cannot simply explain how seafaring canoes filled with goods originated in the lands bordering the edge of the Austronesia that eventually led to the Polynesian and Melanesian ancestry of Pacific Islanders today.
- The geographic range of Austronesia stretches from Easter Island all the way to the westernmost island of Sumatra in Indonesia covering more than 200 million people.
- Most Pacific Islanders belong to the Austronesia speaking family since Austronesia is one of the largest linguistic unities of all the linguistic families that exist on this planet.