Aborigine

Japanese: Aborigine
Aborigine

...refers to the indigenous people who lived on the Australian continent without writing, before the Chinese and Europeans arrived (1788). Both the government and private sectors used to call them Aborigines or Aboriginals, but in recent times the term "indigenous people" has begun to be used officially. Furthermore, the Torres Strait Islanders, who are of a slightly different race and culture, and the Oceanian Islanders who previously arrived (excluding the Maori of New Zealand), are also lumped together as Australian Aboriginals in administrative and daily life terms.

From Oceania

…Oceania is the region that includes the Pacific islands and the Australian continent (including its islands), excluding the islands of the Asian continent and the American continent. Its area is vast, as it includes most of the Pacific Ocean, but its total land area is less than 9 million km2, and the Australian continent alone accounts for 86% of it. If we add New Guinea and New Zealand, the two largest islands by far, the total area is 98%. The remaining several thousand islands have a total area of ​​only 180,000 km2.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Aborigine" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…中国人やヨーロッパ人の渡来(1788)以前からオーストラリア大陸に住んでいた無文字の先住民を指す。官民ともにアボリジニー(アボリジン)Aborigine,アボリジナルAboriginalと呼んでいたが,最近は公的には先住民indigenous peopleという表現が好んで使われ始めている。さらに,これとは人種,文化のやや違うトレス海峡諸島民,およびかつて渡来したオセアニア諸島民(ニュージーランドのマオリを除く)も行政,日常生活においてはオーストラリア先住民として一括されている。…

【オセアニア】より

…アジア大陸と南・北アメリカ大陸の属島を除いた,太平洋諸島とオーストラリア大陸(属島を含む)とを合わせた範囲をオセアニア(大洋州)と呼ぶ。太平洋の大半を含むのでその範囲は広大であるが,陸地総面積は900万km2にたりず,しかもその86%をオーストラリア大陸だけで占めている。これに島々のうちで抜群に大きなニューギニアとニュージーランドとを加えると98%となる。残りの数千を数える島々の総面積はわずか18万km2にすぎない。…

※「Aborigine」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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