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Melanesian Race

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Melanesian Race

 

a branch of the large Equatorial (Negro-Australoid) race. Its members have dark skin, eyes, and hair, frizzy hair, broad noses, thick lips, and marked brow ridges. The race includes four groups: the Negritos, Melanesians, New Caledonians, and Papuans. Representatives of the Melanesian race inhabit the islands of New Guinea, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides, and the Loyalty Islands.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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In this the ancient was in nowise unlike the rest of his dark- skinned Melanesian race. The whites were possessed of unguessed and unthinkable ways and purposes.
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The present inhabitants of Nauru are of mixed Polynesian, Micronesian, and Melanesian races. About four-fifths of the people are Christians.
Celebration: National Day of Nauru
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