Action strategy for nature conservation in the South Pacific region : 1994-1998
Island and Ocean Ecosystems
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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) (SPREP)
1994
The South Pacific is a vast region occupying 30 million square kilometres of the Pacific Ocean, an area more than three times larger than the United States of America or China. Of this, only 2% is land, scattered over a myriad of large and small islands with a total land area of only 500,000 square kilometers. The region is also home to an incredibly diverse range of peoples and their cultures, with three commonly recognised subregional constituents Micronesia, Polynesia and Melanesia.