Kaye’s Point of ViewIt’s now in the afternoon and we arrived at our second stop. It’s the Palau Islands. This is part of the country called Oceania. Palau was made a part of the United States-governed Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in 1947. Having voted and declared against joining the Federated States of Micronesia in 1979, the islands gained full sovereignty in 1994 under a Compact of Free Association with the United States.Oceania is a geographic territory that includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Crossing the eastern and western hemispheres, Oceania has a land area of 8,525,989 square kilometers or 3,291,903 square miles and a population of over 41 million. When compared to continents, the region of Oceania is the smallest in land area and the second smallest in population after Antarctica.The captain told us to explore since they
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