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a transit area, and then the whole area was named Melanesia by implementing various
procedures such as barter trade in Indonesia.
At the beginning of the 18th century, the discovery of Oceania advanced further when
William Dampier came to the New Hanover, New Britain and New Ireland. In 1723, an
admiral, Jacob Roggeveen, crossed the Pacific from east to west to look for possible formal
opening of trading expeditions in the region. Then the discoveries of the Easter islands, the
Tuamotu Archipelago, the Northern islands and the Samoa mainland were made. At that
time, a serious study in the field of science to study life in the Pacific region began. In 1765,
a British admiral, John Byron, was sent by the British Admiralty to the area and on his
journey he also found his way to the Tuamotu Archipelago and the Gilbert Islands. In 1767,
Samuel Wallis and Phillip Carteret voyaged to the Oceania region. Wallis landed in Tahiti

Traditional houses in the village of and Carteret arrived in Pitcairn and also the Solomon Islands and Mendana, even though
Weaa Rebo, East Nusa Tenggara. they were unable to describe the lifestyle of the people in the region.

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