An orthographic projection of Oceania
Oceania OH -s(h)ee-AH -nee-ə, -AY -OH -shee-A(H)N -ee-əgeographical region including Australasia , Melanesia , Micronesia , and Polynesia . Outside of the English-speaking world, Oceania is generally considered a continent , while Australia is regarded as an island or a continental landmass within that continent. Spanning the Eastern and Western Hemispheres , at the centre of the water hemisphere , Oceania is estimated to have a land area of about 9,000,000 square kilometres (3,500,000 sq mi) and a population of around 44.4 million as of 2022. Oceania is the smallest continent in land area and the second-least populated after Antarctica .
Oceania has a diverse mix of economies from the highly developed and globally competitive financial markets of Australia , French Polynesia , Hawaii , New Caledonia , and New Zealand , which rank high in quality of life and Human Development Index , to the much less developed economies of Kiribati , Papua New Guinea , Tuvalu , Vanuatu , and Western New Guinea . The largest and most populous country in Oceania is Australia, and the largest city is Sydney . Puncak Jaya in Indonesia is the highest peak in Oceania at 4,884 m (16,024 ft).
The rock art of Aboriginal Australians is the longest continuously practiced artistic tradition in the world. Most Oceanian countries are parliamentary democracies , with tourism being a large source of income for the Pacific island nations . (Full article...
Lanai Hawaiian : Lānaʻi Hawaiian: [laːˈnɐʔi, naːˈnɐʔi] lə-NY , lah-NAH -ee also lah-NY , lə-NAH -ee Hawaiian Islands and the smallest publicly accessible inhabited island in the chain. It is colloquially known as the Pineapple Island because of its past as an island-wide pineapple plantation . The island's only settlement of note is the small town of Lanai City . As of 2012[update] Larry Ellison , cofounder and chairman of Oracle Corporation ; the remaining 2% is owned by the state of Hawaii or individual homeowners.
Lanai is a roughly apostrophe -shaped island with a width of 18 miles (29 km) in the longest direction. The land area is 140.5 square miles (364 km2 ), making it the 43rd largest island in the United States . It is separated from the island of Molokaʻi by the Kalohi Channel to the north, and from Maui by the Auʻau Channel to the east. The United States Census Bureau defines Lanai as Census Tract 316 of Maui County . Its total population rose to 3,367 as of the 2020 United States census , up from 3,193 as of the 2000 census and 3,131 as of the 2010 census . As visible via satellite imagery, many of the island's landmarks are accessible only by dirt roads that require a four-wheel drive vehicle due to the lack of paved roadways. (Full article...
Oceania University of Medicine OUM ) is an Independent Samoa-based medical school established in 2002 and operated through a public-private partnership between the Government of Samoa and e-Medical Education, LLC, a Florida-based medical education management company. Its hybrid curriculum of distance-learning preclinicals and face-to-face clinical rotations enrolls 333 students, as of March 2024, and 215 graduates are currently in residency/internship training or practicing medicine in numerous global locations, primarily Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Samoa, and the US. (Full article...
The following are images from various Oceania-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 2 German New Guinea before and after the German-Spanish treaty of 1899 (from
Micronesia )
Image 3 Chronological dispersal of
Austronesian peoples across the
Indo-Pacific (from
Melanesia )
Image 4 Sailors of Melanesia in the
Pacific Ocean , 1846 (from
Melanesia )
Image 7 Melanesia is one of three major cultural areas of the
Pacific Ocean islands , along with
Micronesia and
Polynesia . (from
Melanesia )
Image 8 Māori
war canoe drawn after
James Cook 's voyage to New Zealand. (from
Polynesia )
Image 9 Subregions (
Melanesia ,
Micronesia ,
Polynesia and
Australasia ), as well as sovereign and dependent islands of
Oceania (from
Micronesia )
Image 10 Chronological dispersal of
Austronesian peoples across the
Indo-Pacific (from
Micronesia )
Image 11 Polynesia is one of three major cultural areas of the
Pacific Ocean islands , along with
Melanesia and
Micronesia . (from
Polynesia )
Image 12 Map of Melanesia, showing its location within Oceania (from
Melanesia )
Image 13 Mokoliʻi Isle near
Oahu ,
Hawaii (from
Polynesia )
Image 14 Kili Island is one of the smallest islands in the
Marshall Islands . (from
Micronesia )
Image 15 Grinding stones discovered from
archaeology in Samoa (from
Polynesia )
Image 16 Micronesia is one of three major cultural areas of the
Pacific Ocean islands , along with
Melanesia and
Polynesia . (from
Micronesia )
Image 17 A depiction of a royal
heiau (Hawaiian temple) at
Kealakekua Bay , c. 1816 (from
Polynesia )
Image 18 Mount Marpi in
Saipan . (from
Micronesia )
Image 19 Aerial view of
Solomon Islands (from
Melanesia )
Image 20 Polynesia is generally defined as the islands within the
Polynesian Triangle . (from
Polynesia )
Image 21 The arrival of
Abel Tasman in
Tongatapu , 1643; drawing by
Isaack Gilsemans (from
Polynesia )
Image 22 Canoe carving on
Nanumea atoll, Tuvalu (from
Polynesia )
Image 23 Image of the
Castle Bravo nuclear test, detonated on 1 March 1954, at
Bikini Atoll (from
Micronesia )
Image 24 German trading station at
Jaluit Atoll with a Marshallese
korkor outrigger canoe in the foreground (from
Micronesia )
Image 25 Outline of sovereign (dark orange) and dependent islands (bright orange) (from
Melanesia )
Image 26 Subregions (
Melanesia ,
Micronesia , Polynesia, and
Australasia ), as well as sovereign and dependent islands of
Oceania (from
Polynesia )
Image 27 Carving from the ridgepole of a
Māori house, ca 1840 (from
Polynesia )
Image 28 Chamorro people in 1915 (from
Micronesia )
Image 29 Beach scenery at
Laura ,
Majuro , Marshall Islands (from
Micronesia )
Image 30 Moai at Ahu Tongariki on
Rapa Nui (from
Polynesia )
Image 31 Cook's Bay on
Moorea ,
French Polynesia (from
Polynesia )
Image 32 Map showing the migration and expansion of the
Austronesians which began at about 3000 BC from
Taiwan . The Polynesian branch is shown in green. (from
Polynesia )
Image 33 Outline of sovereign (dark orange) and dependent islands (bright orange) (from
Micronesia )
Image 34 An illustration of the Cross Spikes Club of the US Navy on
Bikini Atoll , one of several Marshall Islands used for
atomic bomb tests . (from
Micronesia )
Image 35 King
Kamehameha I receiving the Russian naval expedition of
Otto von Kotzebue . Drawing by
Louis Choris in 1816. (from
Polynesia )
Image 36 Polynesians with
outrigger canoes at
Waikiki Beach ,
Oahu Island , early 20th century (from
Polynesia )
Image 37 A pan flute from
Solomon Islands , 19th century (from
Melanesia )
Image 38 Painting of
Tahitian Women on the Beach by
Paul Gauguin —
Musée d'Orsay (from
Polynesia )
Image 39 Polynesian (Hawaiian) navigators sailing multi-hulled
canoe , c. 1781 (from
Polynesia )
Image 40 On February 14, 1779, Capt.
James Cook was killed on the island of Hawaii (from
Polynesia )
Image 41 Cinder plain of
Mount Yasur in
Vanuatu (from
Melanesia )
Image 43 Languages of Micronesia. (from
Micronesia )
Image 44 Australia's concept of Australasia, which includes Australia, New Zealand and, in this case,
Melanesia (from
Australasia )
Image 46 Outline of sovereign (dark orange) and dependent islands (bright orange) (from
Polynesia )
Image 47 A common fishing canoe
va'a with outrigger in
Savaiʻi island,
Samoa , 2009 (from
Polynesia )
Image 49 A
Melanesian child from
Vanuatu (from
Melanesia )
Image 50 The Polynesian spread of colonization in the Pacific (from
Polynesia )
Australasia Melanesia Micronesia Polynesia
Adamstown Pitcairn Islands 6 Alofi Niue 7 Apia Samoa Avarua Cook Islands 7 Fakaofo Tokelau 8 Funafuti Tuvalu Mata Utu Wallis and Futuna 2 Nukuʻalofa Tonga Pago Pago American Samoa 4 Papeete French Polynesia 2
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