POLYNESIA (MANY ISLANDS)

·         The group of islands within the “triangle” is known as Polynesia.

·         It includes Tuvalu, Samoa, Cook Islands, and Easter Island, French Polynesia, Nive, Pitcairn Islands, Tokelau, Wallis and Futuna.

TAVALU

Area: 26 sq. km.

Population: 10, 588

Capital: Funafuti

·         Formerly known as Ellice Islands

·         World’s fourth smallest independent state.

·         It is a scattered group of nine small atolls in the western Pacific Ocean.

MELANESIA (BLACK ISLANDS)

·         It is the most westerly pacific island group.

·         Lies between the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn, it is divided politically into Irian Barat and Papua new Guinea – the Bismarck’s, Solomon Islands ,New Caledonia, Fiji Island and Vanuatu.