History of The Term
The terms Remote Oceania and Near Oceania were proposed by anthropologists Roger Green and Andrew Pawley in 1973. They are designed to dispel the outdated categories of Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia; Near Oceania cuts right across the old category of Melanesia. The old categories have been in use since they were proposed by French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville in the mid- 19th century. Though the push of academia has been to replace the categories with Green's terms since the early 1990s, the old categories have remained in popular culture and general usage.
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