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SHOPPER'S DELIGHT

This hotspot includes a number of Ecoregion s that make up the northeastern portion of the Australasia Ecozone . The East Melanesian Islands have many plants and some animals whose ancestors arrived from neighboring New Guinea and New Caledonia , but differ from those islands in that they were never joined to a Continent .

ECOREGIONS OF THE EAST MELANESIAN ISLANDS

Admiralty Islands Lowland Rain Forests ( Papua New Guinea )

New Britain-New Ireland Lowland Rain Forests ( Papua New Guinea )

New Britain-New Ireland Montane Rain Forests ( Papua New Guinea )

Solomon Islands Rain Forests ( Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands )

Vanuatu Rain Forests ( Solomon Islands , Vanuatu )

EXTERNAL LINKS

East Melanesian Islands (Conservation International)

Solomons-Vanuatu-Bismarck moist forests: A Global 200 ecoregion (World Wildlife Fund)