# Near Oceania

> part of Oceania settled 35,000 years ago, comprising western Island Melanesia (the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands archipelago)

**Wikidata**: [Q1052653](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1052653)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Oceania)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/near-oceania


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013