"Parts of Oceania had been too unimportant for overdevelopment or for strikes by the superweapons; and those enormous waters were less corrupted than seas elsewhere, more quickly self-cleansed after man became again a rare species." (p. 75)
I am used to thinking of the geographical continents as:
North America
South America
Eurasia
Africa
Australia
Antarctica
(With a merely historical and cultural difference between Europe and Asia.)
So what is Oceania? Apparently (see here), it is:
Australasia (Australia, New Zealand and other islands)
Melanesia
Polynesia
Micronesia
- not to be confused with Oceania in 1984.
And I think that that is more than enough posting for one day. A Poul Anderson novel is like an encyclopedia.
(Tomorrow, early, we will travel by bus to Kendal.)
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I've been to Oceania myself, visiting my brother when he still lived in Hawaii.
Aside from Australia/New Zealand/the island of New Guineau, and a few larger islands like those of Hawaii, Oceania has lots of small islands with few resources, so it's no surprise that part of the world never counted for much till after the War of Judgment.
Ad astra! Sean
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