Answer: The continental islands of Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea support rich natural-resource economies, while the other Pacific Islands rely on their natural resources for subsistence more than economic development.
The smaller islands of Oceania have few valuable natural resources because these islands are way too small to host deposits of valuable natural resources as big as that of Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Australia.
Explanation:
Oceania is a considerably huge part of the world that is known to host a few of the largest deposits of valuable natural resources gold and silver around the world.
Compared to the larger countries like Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Australia, the rest of the smaller Pacific Islands of Oceania are way too smaller in size to have a big number of natural resources available.
