Asia Pacific Region
03/10/2012
Evolution de cette zone pacifique, dès origines jusqu’à la 2ème Guerre Mondiale.
Pacific region : APEC, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Aborigines, surf, beaches, kangaroos, Islands, Hawaii (-> Pearl Harbor), biggest ocean in the world.
Pacific (zone, area) ocean, Asia pacific, pacific rim countries.
Origin of the name ‘Pacific’: 1521 Magellan coined the word, he thought the ocean was calm that came as a mistake. Ancient maps: Pacific Ocean/ south sea
Bougainville, la Perouse, James Cook: famous explorers.
This part of the world was discovered lately.
In the middle ages, the world was represented in a TO map. Asia, Europe, Africa.
Terrarum Orbis (Latin words)
For a long time, it was considered as a vacuum: emptiness. It represents 1/3 of the surface of the earth, mainly water.
The Pacific is a non entity.
2 geographers managed to divide this region into 4: * Pacific basin (it encompasses everything, enormous zone, there’s no center. * Asia-pacific (Asia, Australia) * Oceania (its’ the 5th continent, surrounded by water. Considered as an invisible continent. Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, but it’s difficult to chart, to give visibility to the small islands. Australia is 14x the size of France, but Tuvalu (an island) is 23 km². Kiribati is 800 km² but its EEZ is 35 billion². EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone= sea zone. * South pacific: all the small islands you can fin in the Pacific Ocean, a very residual place.
Mid 19th century, decided to focus on cultural and anthropological criteria.
Divisions: * Micronesia (very small islands, more than 2 000 islands. Only 100 are inhabitable. Common characteristics: had been under colonial control for a very long time) * Melanesia (islands of black people. Ex: papou New Guinea… share the same cultural features. Area full of natural resources, raw materials : gold and copper) * Polynesia (numerous islands, cultural features, lighter skin color. Can still find
Evolution de cette zone pacifique, dès origines jusqu’à la 2ème Guerre Mondiale.
Pacific region : APEC, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Aborigines, surf, beaches, kangaroos, Islands, Hawaii (-> Pearl Harbor), biggest ocean in the world.
Pacific (zone, area) ocean, Asia pacific, pacific rim countries.
Origin of the name ‘Pacific’: 1521 Magellan coined the word, he thought the ocean was calm that came as a mistake. Ancient maps: Pacific Ocean/ south sea
Bougainville, la Perouse, James Cook: famous explorers.
This part of the world was discovered lately.
In the middle ages, the world was represented in a TO map. Asia, Europe, Africa.
Terrarum Orbis (Latin words)
For a long time, it was considered as a vacuum: emptiness. It represents 1/3 of the surface of the earth, mainly water.
The Pacific is a non entity.
2 geographers managed to divide this region into 4: * Pacific basin (it encompasses everything, enormous zone, there’s no center. * Asia-pacific (Asia, Australia) * Oceania (its’ the 5th continent, surrounded by water. Considered as an invisible continent. Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, but it’s difficult to chart, to give visibility to the small islands. Australia is 14x the size of France, but Tuvalu (an island) is 23 km². Kiribati is 800 km² but its EEZ is 35 billion². EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone= sea zone. * South pacific: all the small islands you can fin in the Pacific Ocean, a very residual place.
Mid 19th century, decided to focus on cultural and anthropological criteria.
Divisions: * Micronesia (very small islands, more than 2 000 islands. Only 100 are inhabitable. Common characteristics: had been under colonial control for a very long time) * Melanesia (islands of black people. Ex: papou New Guinea… share the same cultural features. Area full of natural resources, raw materials : gold and copper) * Polynesia (numerous islands, cultural features, lighter skin color. Can still find