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Sint Eustatius (/ j uː ˈ s t eɪ ʃ ə s / yoo-STAY-shəs, Dutch: [sɪnt øːˈstaː(t)sijʏs] ⓘ), [7] known locally as Statia (/ ˈ s t eɪ ʃ ə / STAY-shə), [8] is an island in the Caribbean. It is a special municipality (officially "public body") of the Netherlands. [9] The island is in the northern Leeward Islands, southeast of the ...
Pitcairn Group of Islands British overseas territory: English: Pitcairn Islands — Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands Pitkern: Pitkern Ailen: Adamstown [22] [24] 48 [30] 47 km 2 (18 sq mi) South Papua South Papua Province Province of Indonesia: Indonesian: Papua Selatan: Merauke Regency: 517,623 [32] 127,280.69 km 2 (49,143 sq mi ...
The umbrella term Pacific Islands has taken on several meanings. [1] Sometimes it is used to refer only to the islands defined as lying within Oceania. [2] [3] [4] At other times, it is used to refer to the islands of the Pacific Ocean that were previously colonized by the British, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, or Japanese, or by the United States.
Pacific Ocean, Polynesia Falkland Islands: Two main islands Continental shelf United Kingdom [n 18] 12,173 4,700 3,140 0.26 0.67 Atlantic Ocean, South America Faroe Islands: Archipelago Continental shelf Denmark: 1,393 538 49,483 35.5 92 Atlantic Ocean French Polynesia: Archipelago Oceanic France: 3,827 1,478 274,512 71.7 186 Pacific Ocean ...
The Atlantic Ocean meets the Indian Ocean south of Africa at Cape Agulhas. The Indian Ocean, the third largest, extends northward from the Southern Ocean to India, the Arabian Peninsula, and Southeast Asia in Asia, and between Africa in the west and Australia in the east. The Indian Ocean joins the Pacific Ocean to the east, near Australia.
Archipelagos of the Arctic Ocean: . Arctic Alaska. Kasegaluk Lagoon Islands; Midway Islands; Pye Islands; Pencil Islands; Seahorse Islands; Bear Island; Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Today the term South Seas, or South Sea, most commonly refers to the portion of the Pacific Ocean south of the equator. [1] [2] [3] The term South Sea may also be used synonymously for Oceania, or even more narrowly for Polynesia or the Polynesian Triangle, an area bounded by the Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand and Easter Island.
Although the exact timing of when each island group was settled is debated, it is widely accepted that the island groups in the geographic center of the region (i.e. the Cook Islands, Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, etc.) were settled initially between 1000 and 1150 AD, [33] [34] and ending with more far flung island groups such as Hawaii ...