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Pacific Islands, island geographic region of the Pacific Ocean. It comprises three ethnogeographic groupings Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia but conventionally excludes the neighbouring island continent of Australia, the Asia-related Indonesian, Philippine, and Japanese archipelagoes, and the Ryukyu, Bonin, Volcano, and Kuril island arcs that project seaward from Japan. Neither does the term include the Aleutian chain or such isolated islands of the Pacific Ocean as the Juan Fernández group off the coast of South America. The more inclusive term Oceania, in its broadest definition, encompasses all the foregoing; however, the term is used less strictly in this article to refer to the
Pacific Islands, geographic region of the Pacific Ocean. It comprises three ethnogeographic groupings Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia but conventionally excludes Australia, the Indonesian, Philippine, and Japanese archipelagoes, and the Ryukyu, Bonin, Volcano, and Kuril island arcs beyond Japan.