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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]
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However, the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) considers the entire Gilbert islands group to be in the South Pacific Ocean. [4] Another way to group the Gilbert Islands is according to their former administrative districts, which were known as the Northern, Central, and Southern Gilberts. (Tarawa was once a separate district as well).
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.
Projection: Equirectangular projection coordinate system EPSG:3786 centred on longitude 150°E (Base map used Natural Earth data.) Not included: Antarctica and northern polar region: Date: 22 October 2017: Source: This file was derived from: Maps template-en.svg: Natural Earth 1:50 million dataset; Author: Derivative work made by John Tann ...
Tonga Trench south of the Samoa Islands and north of New Zealand. The 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami killed more than 170 people in the Samoa Islands and Tonga. The M8.1 submarine earthquake took place in the region at 06:48:11 local time on September 29, 2009 (17:48:11 UTC, September 29), followed by smaller aftershocks. [27]
There's no need to create a new file. The map description shows that this map deviates from the one from which it originated: many borders were modified: e.x. East Timor, Mengjiang. It also welcomes changes based on better information, and this is such a : 10:11, 27 August 2010: 1,039 × 814 (4.44 MB) Kintetsubuffalo