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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]
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List of islands of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean — on the south. List of islands in the Atlantic Ocean — on the southwest. List of islands in the Pacific Ocean — on the east. Lists of islands
Abrolhos Archipelago; Belcher Islands; Bermuda Islands; Bocas del Toro; Broken Islands; Corn Islands; Cranberry Isles; Diego Ramírez Islands; Falkland Islands
However, the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) considers the entire Gilbert islands group to be in the South Pacific Ocean. [4] Another way to group the Gilbert Islands is according to their former administrative districts, which were known as the Northern, Central, and Southern Gilberts. (Tarawa was once a separate district as well).
Projection: Equirectangular projection coordinate system EPSG:3786 centred on longitude 150°E (Base map used Natural Earth data.) Not included: Antarctica and northern polar region: Date: 22 October 2017: Source: This file was derived from: Maps template-en.svg: Natural Earth 1:50 million dataset; Author: Derivative work made by John Tann ...
The Polynesian Triangle is a geographical region of the Pacific Ocean with Hawaii (Hawaiʻi) (1), New Zealand (Aotearoa) (2) and Easter Island (Rapa Nui) (3) at its corners, but excluding Fiji on its western side. At the center is Tahiti (5), with Samoa (4) to the west.