Oceania

Oceania is a region centred on the continent of Australia and the many island groups scattered across the Pacific Ocean including Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. It covers a land area of 3,285,048 miles (8,508,238 sq km).

Vast expanses of ocean separate this geographically fragmented realm, characterised more by each country’s isolation than by any political unity. Australia’s and New Zealand’s traditional ties with the United Kingdom, as members of the Commonwealth, are now being called into question as Australasian and Oceanian nations are increasingly looking to forage new relationships with neighbouring Asian countries like Japan and China. External influences have featured strongly in the politics of the Pacific Islands; the various territories of Micronesia were largely under US control until the late 1980’s, and France, New Zealand, the USA and the UK still have territories under colonial rule in Polynesia. Nuclear weapons-testing by Western superpowers was widespread during the Cold War period, but has now been discontinued.

Countries part of Oceania are :

Melanesia –

Vanuatu
Solomon Islands
Fiji
Papua New Guinea
New Caledonia
West Papua
Maluka Islands

Micronesia –

Federated States of Micronesia (“Micronesia”)
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Nauru
Palau
Guam
Northern Mariana Islands
Wake Islands

Polynesia –

American Samoa
Cook Islands
Easter Island
French Polynesia
Niue
Norfolk Island
Pitcairn Islands
Samoa
Tokelau
Tonga
Tuvalu
Wallis and Futuna
Rotuma

Explore Oceania

Australia

Located in a remote corner of the world, Australia may be hard to get to but it offers unequalled experiences and a wealth of diversity like no other country.

New Zealand

New Zealand is filled with wonderful surprises – scenery beyond belief, an energetic Maori culture, super-friendly locals, and a tourism infrastructure equal to that of any country in the world.