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The green background represents the jungle and the six stars represent the six hamlets of Ngchesar. In the center is the state's spirit god ochaio. [35] Ngeremlengui: The map in the center is the territory of Ngeremlengui. The linked chains represent the hamlets of Ngeremlengui. [36] Ngiwal: The four stars represent the four hamlets of Ngiwal.
Flag of New South Wales: A St George's Cross with four gold stars and a lion in the fly of a British blue ensign. 1876–present [a] Flag of Queensland: A light blue Maltese cross with a crown on a white background in the fly of a British blue ensign. 1904–present Flag of South Australia: A piping shrike on a gold background in the fly of a ...
Map English short and formal names [20] Status Domestic short and formal names Capital Population Area [28] American Samoa Territory of American Samoa [22] Unincorporated territory of the United States: English: American Samoa — Territory of American Samoa Samoan: Amerika Sāmoa: Pago Pago [22] [24] 67,242 [30] 199 km 2 (77 sq mi) Ashmore and ...
United States Minor Outlying Island of the Pacific Flag of the United States, the only official flag of Wake Island (1899-present) Unofficial but widely accepted flag of Wake Island (c.e.1982-present)
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]
Papua New Guinea; Use: National flag, civil and state ensign: Proportion: 3:4: Adopted: 1 July 1971; 53 years ago (): Design: Divided diagonally from the upper hoist-side corner to the lower fly-side corner: the upper triangle is red with the soaring Raggiana bird-of-paradise and the lower triangle is black with the Southern Cross of four white larger five-pointed stars and the smaller star.
The 2007 book Asia in the Pacific Islands: Replacing the West, by New Zealand Pacific scholar Ron Crocombe, defined the term "Pacific Islands" as being islands in the South Pacific Commission, and stated that such a definition "does not include Galápagos and other [oceanic] islands off the Pacific coast of the Americas; these were uninhabited ...
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.