Norfolk Island lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• an island territory of Australia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia; formerly a British penal colony
• The collective name for the islands of the Pacific Ocean northeast of Australia, including NEW CALEDONIA; VANUATU; New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Admiralty Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, FIJI, etc. Melanesia (from the Greek melas, black + nesos, island) is so called from the black color of the natives who are generally considered to be descended originally from the Negroid Papuans and the Polynesians or Malays. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p748&Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p344)