- Equatorial (Negro-Australoid) Race by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
the collective name of the Negroid and Australoid races in the tropical zone of Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Australia. Representatives of the Equatorial race are characterized by curly or wavy hair, dark skin, hair, and eyes, prognathism, a wide nose ...
- Negroid Race by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
the African branch of the Equatorial (or Negro-Australoid) race. Members of this race are distinguished by dark skin, curly hair, a broad nose, thick lips, and prognathism. The term “Negroid” is sometimes used to signify the Equatorial race.
- Melanesian Race by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
a branch of the large Equatorial (Negro-Australoid) race. Its members have dark skin, eyes, and hair, frizzy hair, broad noses, thick lips, and marked brow ridges. The race includes four groups: the Negritos, Melanesians, New Caledonians, and Papuans. Representatives of ...
- Micronesia by Kaylee Ferguson
... the equator. Micronesia includes the Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands, Mariana Islands (see Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, Gilbert Islands, and Nauru. The inhabitants are of Australoid and Polynesian stock. They speak Malayo-Polynesian languages.
- Melanesia by Erick Peters
... Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Tuvalu, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Admiralty Islands, and Fiji. New Guinea is sometimes included in Melanesia. The Melanesians are largely of Australoid stock; they speak Malayo-Polynesian languages.BibliographySee study by H. C. Brookfield and D. Hart (1971).