| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Because land masses in the western Pacific are drifting westwards, colonization will generally be from older hot spot islands west of the younger islands.Irrespective of exactly where the original colonists come from, the islands of French Polynesia, as other remote islands, are characterized by a ???disharmonic??? biota: many entire groups, notably mammals, are absent from the native biota.
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