Australians and Oceanians

Australia's indigenous people the Australians are completely separate in the land's peoples classification. Anthropologically Australians belong to a variant of the Australian race. Linguistically they are also separate. Before Europeans arrived in the late 18th century Australians were settled throughout the mainland. They numbered between 250000 and 300000 people at the time. The economy and culture of Australians was extremely low at that time. They lived a stray life without knowing about farming or pastoralism. Their main occupation was hunting and gathering and occasionally fishing. Hunting was a man's business. By nature and population Oceania is divided into several parts: Melanesia (Greek black islands) - the westernmost and largest islands; Micronesia (Greek small islands) - small islands north of Melanesia; Polynesia (Greek many islands) - all other small islands and (in different classifications) New Zealand. The vast majority of islands are small coral islands forming numerous archipelagos mainly in northern and eastern Oceania.