Facts:

• The most useful and widely known of the tree species in Oceania, the Pacific Islands is the coconut which is famous for drinking and food staple with which the leaves are very functional for woven baskets and thatch.
• The Pacific Island land tenure systems are closely tied to traditional systems of governance and social structures which in return are reflected in the ways in which people organize and interact within themselves in the region, for example their trade systems or their social class pyramid.
• The Pacific Ocean extends over 1/3 of the earth’s surface laying on top of an area larger than all the land on Earth combined!
• Rainfall in oceanic islands differ across the Pacific which give greater increase or decrease to different vegetation and food systems, which highlt affect the ability of survival for people on small and isolated regions of land. There is very few seasonality in rainfall and temperature near the Equator, but as one moves North or South, climate becomes quite distinguished with distinctive wet and dry seasons, again depending on which direction one encompasses
• Oceania, is also known as the “marine continent”, which was the last great region of the world to be claimed by humans, only found and made possible by extraordinary, advanced, seafaring, and navigational techniques of the ancestors of the Oceania/Pacific Island inhabitants.
• Approximately about 500 years ago, almost every island in the Pacific Ocean had been visited by people ever since the settlement of the first colonists about 30,000 years ago.
• More than 1,800 of the common people of Oceania Art create musical instruments- these instruments which control the entertainment that is practiced in sacred, religious rituals, dances, feasts, courtships, celebrations, or just casual entertainment events- although just a musical instrument, it marked functional roles in Oceanian society, for example, the voice for war, announcements, voices of supernatural forces, natural forces, or other lofty enticing lover voices; artworks which also tell a narrative.