Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, whose wartime BBC career influenced his creation of Oceania. What is known of the society, politics and economics of Oceania, and its rivals, comes from the in-universe book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein, a literary device Orwell uses to connect the past and present of 1984. [1]
Location of Oceania. The following outline is provided as an overview and topical guide to Oceania. Oceania is a geographical, and geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The term is also sometimes used to denote a continent comprising Australia and proximate Pacific islands.
An exclusive economic zone map of the Pacific which includes areas not politically associated with Oceania, that may be considered geographically or geologically within Oceania In her 1997 book Australia and Oceania , Australian historian Kate Darian-Smith defined the area as covering Australia, New Zealand and the islands of the Melanesia ...
The UNSD notes that "the assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories". [1] The number between parentheses is the UN M49 code (009 for the whole of Oceania).
Although it is mostly ocean and spans many tectonic plates, Oceania is occasionally listed as one of the continents. Most of this list follows the boundaries of geopolitical Oceania, which includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The main continental landmass of Oceania is Australia. [1]
Physical map of Australia Australia on the globe with Australia's Antarctic claims hatched. Australia is a country and an island located in Oceania between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean. It shares its name with the country that claims control over it.
English: Map of Oceania based on the United Nations geoscheme M49 coding classification devised by the United Nations Statistics Division with illustrative (not definitive, nor authoritative) Zones for countries. SVG format.
1852 map of Oceania by J.G. Barbie du Bocage, ... who had extensive knowledge of Pacific geography, ... Political Map of the Asia-Pacific Region, 1939. ...