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 Mainland Australia is regarded as its continental landmass . 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 serving as a large source of income for the Pacific island nations . (Full article...
Moai facing inland at Ahu Tongariki , restored by Chilean archaeologist Claudio Cristino in the 1990s Moai moʻai ( MOH -eyeSpanish : moái ; Rapa Nui : moʻai , lit. monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500. Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku , the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island's perimeter. Almost all moai have overly large heads, which account for three-eighths of the size of the whole statue. They also have no legs. The moai are chiefly the living faces (aringa ora ) of deified ancestors (aringa ora ata tepuna ).
The statues still gazed inland across their clan lands when Europeans first visited the island in 1722 , but all of them had fallen by the latter part of the 19th century. The moai were toppled in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, possibly as a result of European contact or internecine tribal wars . (Full article...
The following are images from various Oceania-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 Languages of Micronesia. (from
Micronesia )
Image 2 A depiction of a royal
heiau (Hawaiian temple) at
Kealakekua Bay , c. 1816 (from
Polynesia )
Image 3 Outline of sovereign (dark orange) and dependent islands (bright orange) (from
Polynesia )
Image 4 A
Melanesian child from
Vanuatu (from
Melanesia )
Image 5 A pan flute from
Solomon Islands , 19th century (from
Melanesia )
Image 6 Mokoliʻi Isle near
Oahu ,
Hawaii (from
Polynesia )
Image 7 Canoe carving on
Nanumea atoll, Tuvalu (from
Polynesia )
Image 8 Cook's Bay on
Moorea ,
French Polynesia (from
Polynesia )
Image 9 A common fishing canoe
va'a with outrigger in
Savaiʻi island,
Samoa , 2009 (from
Polynesia )
Image 10 Mount Marpi in
Saipan . (from
Micronesia )
Image 11 King
Kamehameha I receiving the Russian naval expedition of
Otto von Kotzebue . Drawing by
Louis Choris in 1816. (from
Polynesia )
Image 12 Australia's concept of Australasia, which includes Australia, New Zealand and, in this case,
Melanesia (from
Australasia )
Image 13 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 14 Polynesia is one of three major cultural areas of the
Pacific Ocean islands , along with
Melanesia and
Micronesia . (from
Polynesia )
Image 15 Māori
war canoe drawn after
James Cook 's voyage to New Zealand. (from
Polynesia )
Image 16 Chronological dispersal of
Austronesian peoples across the
Indo-Pacific (from
Micronesia )
Image 17 German New Guinea before and after the German-Spanish treaty of 1899 (from
Micronesia )
Image 18 The arrival of
Abel Tasman in
Tongatapu , 1643; drawing by
Isaack Gilsemans (from
Polynesia )
Image 19 Image of the
Castle Bravo nuclear test, detonated on 1 March 1954, at
Bikini Atoll (from
Micronesia )
Image 21 Polynesian (Hawaiian) navigators sailing multi-hulled
canoe , c. 1781 (from
Polynesia )
Image 22 Cinder plain of
Mount Yasur in
Vanuatu (from
Melanesia )
Image 23 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 24 On February 14, 1779, Capt.
James Cook was killed on the island of Hawaii (from
Polynesia )
Image 25 Melanesia is one of three major cultural areas of the
Pacific Ocean islands , along with
Micronesia and
Polynesia . (from
Melanesia )
Image 26 Polynesians with
outrigger canoes at
Waikiki Beach ,
Oahu Island , early 20th century (from
Polynesia )
Image 27 Outline of sovereign (dark orange) and dependent islands (bright orange) (from
Melanesia )
Image 28 Subregions (
Melanesia ,
Micronesia , Polynesia, and
Australasia ), as well as sovereign and dependent islands of
Oceania (from
Polynesia )
Image 29 Chronological dispersal of
Austronesian peoples across the
Indo-Pacific (from
Melanesia )
Image 30 Polynesia is generally defined as the islands within the
Polynesian Triangle . (from
Polynesia )
Image 32 Micronesia is one of three major cultural areas of the
Pacific Ocean islands , along with
Melanesia and
Polynesia . (from
Micronesia )
Image 34 Map of Melanesia, showing its location within Oceania (from
Melanesia )
Image 35 Kili Island is one of the smallest islands in the
Marshall Islands . (from
Micronesia )
Image 36 Sailors of Melanesia in the
Pacific Ocean , 1846 (from
Melanesia )
Image 38 Painting of
Tahitian Women on the Beach by
Paul Gauguin —
Musée d'Orsay (from
Polynesia )
Image 40 Chamorro people in 1915 (from
Micronesia )
Image 42 German trading station at
Jaluit Atoll with a Marshallese
korkor outrigger canoe in the foreground (from
Micronesia )
Image 43 The Polynesian spread of colonization in the Pacific (from
Polynesia )
Image 44 Subregions (
Melanesia ,
Micronesia ,
Polynesia and
Australasia ), as well as sovereign and dependent islands of
Oceania (from
Micronesia )
Image 45 Beach scenery at
Laura ,
Majuro , Marshall Islands (from
Micronesia )
Image 46 Aerial view of
Solomon Islands (from
Melanesia )
Image 47 Grinding stones discovered from
archaeology in Samoa (from
Polynesia )
Image 49 Moai at Ahu Tongariki on
Rapa Nui (from
Polynesia )
Image 50 Carving from the ridgepole of a
Māori house, ca 1840 (from
Polynesia )
Image 51 Outline of sovereign (dark orange) and dependent islands (bright orange) (from
Micronesia )
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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