World: Australia & Oceania

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Oceania covers a vast portion of the world’s surface, and each island or archipelago is separated by thousands of miles of Pacific, yet these distinct cultures share one source: the southward migration of seafarers from Southeast Asia, who arrived on the single landmass that was New Guinea, Australia and Tasmania approximately 50,000 years ago. It would take more than 45,000 years before they would set foot on the islands of Melanesia, ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer
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