Movatterモバイル変換

[0]ホーム

Jump to content

Portal:Oceania

Edit links

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Portal maintenance status:(June 2018)

This portal'ssubpageshave been checked by an editor, and are needed.

Pleasetake care when editing, especially if usingautomated editing software. Learn how toupdate the maintenance information here.

Wikipedia portal for content related to Oceania

Portal topics - (Random portal)

The Oceania Portal

An orthographic projection of Oceania

Oceania (UK:/ˌoʊsiˈɑːniə,ˌoʊʃi-,-ˈeɪn-/OH-s(h)ee-AH-nee-ə, -⁠AY-,US:/ˌoʊʃiˈæniə,-ˈɑːn-/ ^ⓘOH-shee-A(H)N-ee-ə) is ageographical region includingAustralasia,Melanesia,Micronesia, andPolynesia. Outside of theEnglish-speaking world, Oceania is generally considered acontinent, whileMainland Australia is regarded as its continentallandmass. Spanning theEastern andWestern hemispheres, at the centre of thewater 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 46.3 million as of 2024. Oceania is the smallest continent in land area and thesecond-least populated afterAntarctica.

Oceania has a diverse mix of economies from thehighly developed and globally competitivefinancial markets ofAustralia,French Polynesia,Hawaii,New Caledonia, andNew Zealand, which rank high inquality of life andHuman Development Index, to the muchless developed economies ofKiribati,Papua New Guinea,Tuvalu,Vanuatu, andWestern New Guinea. The largest and most populouscountry in Oceania is Australia, and the largest city isSydney.Puncak Jaya inIndonesia is the highest peak in Oceania at 4,884 m (16,024 ft).

Therock art ofAboriginal Australians is the longest continuously practiced artistic tradition in the world. Most Oceanian countries areparliamentary democracies, withtourism serving as a large source of income for thePacific island nations. (Full article...)

Refresh with new selections below (purge)

Selected geographic article -show another

Vanuatu (English:/ˌvɑːnuˈɑːtuː/ ^ⓘVAH-noo-AH-too or/vænˈwɑːtuː/van-WAH-too;Bislama and French pronunciation[vanuatu]), officially theRepublic of Vanuatu (French:République de Vanuatu;Bislama:Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is anisland country inMelanesia located in the South Pacific Ocean. Thearchipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is 1,750 km (1,090 mi) east of northern Australia, 540 km (340 mi) northeast ofNew Caledonia, east ofNew Guinea, southeast ofSolomon Islands, and west ofFiji.

Vanuatu was first inhabited byMelanesian people. The first Europeans to visit the islands were a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigatorFernandes de Queirós, who arrived on the largest island,Espíritu Santo, in 1606. Queirós claimed the archipelago for Spain, as part of the colonialSpanish East Indies and named itLa Austrialia del Espíritu Santo. (Full article...)

List of geographic articles

edit

Related portals

Selected article -show another

Oceania University of Medicine (OUM) is an Independent Samoa-basedmedical school established in 2002 and operated through apublic-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 380 students, as of October 2025, and 266 graduates are currently in residency/internship training or practicing medicine in numerous global locations, primarily Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, Samoa, and the US. (Full article...)

List of selected articles

Did you know -load new batch

... thatMichaela Foster, a New Zealand footballer playing in the2023 World Cup, is known for hermana?

General images -load new batch

The following are images from various Oceania-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1New Caledonia (fromMelanesia)
Image 2Painting ofTahitian Women on the Beach byPaul Gauguin—Musée d'Orsay (fromPolynesia)
Image 3Mount Marpi inSaipan. (fromMicronesia)
Image 4Beach scenery atLaura,Majuro, Marshall Islands (fromMicronesia)
Image 5Languages of Micronesia. (fromMicronesia)
Image 6Chamorro people in 1915 (fromMicronesia)
Image 7Map of Melanesia, showing its location within Oceania (fromMelanesia)
Image 8Moai at Ahu Tongariki onRapa Nui (fromPolynesia)
Image 9Melanesia is one of three major cultural areas of thePacific Ocean islands, along withMicronesia andPolynesia. (fromMelanesia)
Image 10Polynesia is generally defined as the islands within thePolynesian Triangle. (fromPolynesia)
Image 11Polynesian (Hawaiian) navigators sailing multi-hulledcanoe, c. 1781 (fromPolynesia)
Image 12Outline of sovereign (dark orange) and dependent islands (bright orange) (fromPolynesia)
Image 13Australia's concept of Australasia, which includes Australia, New Zealand and, in this case,Melanesia (fromAustralasia)
Image 14Image of theCastle Bravo nuclear test, detonated on 1 March 1954, atBikini Atoll (fromMicronesia)
Image 15The Polynesian spread of colonization in the Pacific (fromPolynesia)
Image 16Canoe carving onNanumea atoll, Tuvalu (fromPolynesia)
Image 17Kili Island is one of the smallest islands in theMarshall Islands. (fromMicronesia)
Image 18The arrival ofAbel Tasman inTongatapu, 1643; drawing byIsaack Gilsemans (fromPolynesia)
Image 19AMelanesian child fromVanuatu (fromMelanesia)
Image 20German New Guinea before and after the German-Spanish treaty of 1899 (fromMicronesia)
Image 21Spinner dolphins (fromMicronesia)
Image 22Map showing the migration and expansion of theAustronesians which began at about 3000 BC fromTaiwan. The Polynesian branch is shown in green. (fromPolynesia)
Image 23Aerial view ofSolomon Islands (fromMelanesia)
Image 24A depiction of a royalheiau (Hawaiian temple) atKealakekua Bay, c. 1816 (fromPolynesia)
Image 25German trading station atJaluit Atoll with a Marshallesekorkor outrigger canoe in the foreground (fromMicronesia)
Image 26Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi,Prime Minister of Samoa from 1998 to 2021, who initiated thePolynesian Leaders Group in late 2011. (fromPolynesia)
Image 27A common fishing canoeva'a with outrigger inSavaiʻi island,Samoa, 2009 (fromPolynesia)
Image 28Subregions (Melanesia,Micronesia, Polynesia, andAustralasia), as well as sovereign and dependent islands ofOceania (fromPolynesia)
Image 29Manila Galleon in theMarianas andCarolinas, c. 1590Boxer Codex (fromMicronesia)
Image 30Map from 1961 of the USTrust Territory of the Pacific Islands, formerly Japan'sSouth Seas Mandate. (fromMicronesia)
Image 31Tarawa Atoll (fromMicronesia)
Image 32Chronological dispersal ofAustronesian peoples across theIndo-Pacific (fromMicronesia)
Image 33Chronological dispersal ofAustronesian peoples across theIndo-Pacific (fromMelanesia)
Image 34Polynesia is one of three major cultural areas of thePacific Ocean islands, along withMelanesia andMicronesia. (fromPolynesia)
Image 35An illustration of the Cross Spikes Club of the US Navy onBikini Atoll, one of several Marshall Islands used foratomic bomb tests. (fromMicronesia)
Image 36KingKamehameha I receiving the Russian naval expedition ofOtto von Kotzebue. Drawing byLouis Choris in 1816. (fromPolynesia)
Image 37Polynesians withoutrigger canoes atWaikiki Beach,Oahu Island, early 20th century (fromPolynesia)
Image 38Carving from the ridgepole of aMāori house, ca 1840 (fromPolynesia)
Image 39Micronesia is one of three major cultural areas of thePacific Ocean islands, along withMelanesia andPolynesia. (fromMicronesia)
Image 40Outline of sovereign (dark orange) and dependent islands (bright orange) (fromMicronesia)
Image 41A pan flute fromSolomon Islands, 19th century (fromMelanesia)
Image 42Cinder plain ofMount Yasur inVanuatu (fromMelanesia)
Image 43Outline of sovereign (orange) and dependent islands (yellow) (fromMelanesia)
Image 44On February 14, 1779, Capt.James Cook was killed on the island of Hawaii. (fromPolynesia)
Image 45Grinding stones discovered fromarchaeology in Samoa (fromPolynesia)
Image 46Köppen-Geiger climate classification map of Melanesia (fromMelanesia)
Image 47Māoriwar canoe (waka) drawn afterJames Cook's voyage to New Zealand. (fromPolynesia)
Image 48Mokoliʻi Isle nearOahu,Hawaii (fromPolynesia)
Image 49Sailors of Melanesia in thePacific Ocean, 1846 (fromMelanesia)
Image 50Cook's Bay onMoorea,French Polynesia (fromPolynesia)
Image 51Subregions (Melanesia, Micronesia,Polynesia andAustralasia), as well as sovereign and dependent islands ofOceania (fromMicronesia)

Topics

Countries and territories ofOceania

Sovereign states

Entire	Australia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu
In part	Chile Easter Island Juan Fernández Islands Ecuador Galápagos Islands Indonesia Central Papua Highland Papua Papua South Papua Southwest Papua West Papua United States Hawaii Palmyra Atoll

Associated states

Dependencies and
otherterritories

Australia	Ashmore and Cartier Islands Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Coral Sea Islands Norfolk Island
France	Clipperton Island French Polynesia New Caledonia Wallis and Futuna
New Zealand	Tokelau
United Kingdom	Pitcairn Islands
United States	American Samoa Baker Island Guam Howland Island Jarvis Island Johnston Atoll Kingman Reef Midway Atoll Northern Mariana Islands Wake Island

Oceania portal

v t e Capitals of Oceania
Dependent territories are in italics
Australasia	Canberra,Australia Wellington,New Zealand¹
Melanesia	Honiara,Solomon Islands Nouméa,New Caledonia² Port Moresby,Papua New Guinea³ Port Vila,Vanuatu Suva,Fiji
Micronesia	Hagåtña,Guam⁴ Majuro,Marshall Islands⁵ Ngerulmud,Palau⁵ Palikir,Federated States of Micronesia⁵ Saipan,Northern Mariana Islands⁴ South Tarawa,Kiribati Yaren,Nauru (de facto)
Polynesia	Adamstown,Pitcairn Islands⁶ Alofi,Niue⁷ Apia,Samoa Avarua,Cook Islands⁷ Fakaofo,Tokelau⁸ Funafuti,Tuvalu Mata Utu,Wallis and Futuna (de facto)² Nukuʻalofa,Tonga Pago Pago,American Samoa⁴ Papeete,French Polynesia²
¹Often included in Polynesia ²Overseas collectivities orsui generis collectivity of France ³Often included in Australasia ⁴Insular area of the United States ⁵Infree association with the United States ⁶Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom ⁷Infree association with New Zealand ⁸New Zealand dependent territory