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1851 map of Pacific listing colonial names of individual islands. Since the beginning of the 19th century, Australia and the islands of the Pacific have been grouped by geographers into a region called Oceania. [17] [18] It is often used as a quasi-continent, with the Pacific Ocean being the defining characteristic. [19]
The Oceanian realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms and is unique in not including any continental land mass. It has the smallest land area of any of the WWF realms . This realm includes the islands of the Pacific Ocean in Micronesia , the Fijian Islands , the Hawaiian Islands , and Polynesia (with the exception of New Zealand). [ 1 ]
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
PLOS One describe Insular Chile as having "cultural and ecological connections to the broader insular Pacific." [113] A map of member states for the Pacific Islands Forum, the member states are depicted in blue. The PIF is a governing organization for the Pacific, and all of its members are seen as being politically within Oceania.
Country / dependency % total Oceania area in km 2 (mi 2); 1 Australia 86.1%: 7,692,024 (2,969,907) 2 Papua New Guinea 5.2%: 462,840 (178,700) Western New Guinea (): 4 ...
A biogeographic realm is the broadest biogeographic division of Earth's land surface, based on distributional patterns of terrestrial organisms. They are subdivided into bioregions, which are further subdivided into ecoregions. A biogeographic realm is also known as "ecozone", although that term may also refer to ecoregions.
1 Map. 2 Table. 3 See also. 4 Notes. ... and official figures are from the Pacific Community [2] and other official sources. Map ... 30 Jun 2023 [3] [4] 3
The Polynesian Triangle is a geographical region of the Pacific Ocean with Hawaii (Hawaiʻi) (1), New Zealand (Aotearoa) (2) and Easter Island (Rapa Nui) (3) at its corners, but excluding Fiji on its western side. At the center is Tahiti (5), with Samoa (4) to the west.