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See also: List of Fijian flags: A cyan British Blue Ensign defaced with the shield of Fiji's Coat of Arms in the fly half. 1979 – Flag of Kiribati: 1979 – Flag of the Marshall Islands: 1978 – Flag of the Federated States of Micronesia: 1968 – Flag of Nauru See also: List of Nauruan flags: 1902 – Flag of New Zealand See also: List of ...
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. [2] 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. [3] 1904–present Flag of South Australia
Flag of the German Colonial Office, used by the German Empire for the colony of Samoa (1899-1915) Flag of New Zealand, used during the control of the New Zealand Army (1914–1920) Flag of the Western Samoa under Mandate with UK (1920–1962)
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]
Flag Coat of Arms / National Emblem Map English short and formal names [20] Status Domestic short and formal names Capital Population Area [28] Cook Islands [22] Self-governing in free association with New Zealand. It shares a head of state with New Zealand as well as having shared citizenship, but is independent in its internal affairs.
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 ...
6.1 Constituent countries. 6.2 Special municipalities. ... Flag of South Georgia and the South Sandwich ... Gallery of sovereign state flags; List of country ...
In the North Pacific, non-tropical islands in and around Alaska, Japan, and Russia were inhabited by people related to Indigenous American and Far East Asian groups, [11] with some Japanese ethnic groups also being theorized to be related to Indigenous Pacific groups. [12] In the South Pacific, the easternmost oceanic island with any human ...