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The Ellice Islands were administered as British protectorate by a Resident Commissioner from 1892 to 1916 as part of the British Western Pacific Territories (BWPT), and later as part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony from 1916 to 1974. [84] [85] Among the last islands in Oceania to be colonised was Niue (1900).
The Malay Archipelago has historically been associated with Oceania, [13] [9] [14] [15] however, very few present-day definitions include it as part of Oceania. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The Malay Archipelago lies on the continental shelf of Asia; Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands (both adjacent to the Malay Archipelago) lie on the Australian ...
History books about Oceania (3 C, 2 P) C. Histories of cities in Oceania (4 C) D. Defunct organizations based in Oceania (15 C) ... Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
Oceania is generally considered the least decolonized region in the world. In his 1993 book France and the South Pacific since 1940, Robert Aldrich commented: . With the ending of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands became a 'commonwealth' of the United States, and the new republics of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia signed ...
Hutton Webster's 1919 book Medieval and Modern History also considered Oceania to encompass all islands in the Pacific, stating that, "the term Oceania, or Oceanica, in its widest sense applies to all the Pacific Islands." Webster broke Oceania up into two subdivisions; the continental group, which included Australia, the Japanese archipelago ...
Below is a list of countries and dependencies in Oceania by area. [1] Australia is the largest country in Oceania while Nauru is the smallest. Country / dependency
History of the Cook Islands by topic (2 C) History of Fiji by topic (7 C) ... Social history of Oceania (3 C, 1 P) History of sport in Oceania (9 C)
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