; Location: Oceania, island in the North Pacific Ocean, about a quarter of the way from the Philippines to Hawaii, U. S. A.

* Oceania ( also known as " The Atlantis Project ", but unrelated to the 1970s project listed above ), another libertarian artificial island project that raised US $ 400, 000 before going bankrupt in 1994.

Nauru is a tiny phosphate rock island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean south of the Marshall Islands in Oceania.

Papua New Guinea ( PNG ; Tok Pisin: Papua Niugini ), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea ( the western portion of the island is a part of the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua ) and numerous offshore islands.

Oceania, island group of nine islands comprising three reef islands and six true atolls in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to Australia.

: Southeast Asia ( or Oceania depending on definitions ), northwest of Australia in the Lesser Sunda Islands at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago ; note-East Timor includes the eastern half of the island of Timor, the Ocussi-Ambeno region on the northwest portion of the island of Timor, and the islands of Atauro and Jaco

* since 22 March 1907, the colonial Gouverneur of New Caledonia was also appointed as High Commissioner in the Pacific Ocean, to coordinate with the governors of the French Settlements in Oceania and the Governors-general of French Indochina ; the French resident commissioner of the Anglo-French condominium Nouvelles Hébrides and the Residents to the island protectorates of Wallis and Futuna were subordinated to him

With the exception of bats, which live on most of the island groups, there are few if any indigenous mammal species in Oceania.

He vanished in Oceania with the remains of his expedition being found later in 1826 at the island of Vanikoro, which is part of the Santa Cruz group of islands.

Ethnolinguistically, those Pacific Islanders who reside in Oceania are divided into two different ethnic classifications — those Austronesian peoples who speak the Oceanian languages, numbering about 2. 3 million, who occupy Polynesia, Micronesia, and most of the smaller islands of Melanesia ; and the Papuan peoples, those who speak the Papuan languages, who number about 7 million, and reside on the island of New Guinea and a few of the smaller islands of Melanesia located off the northeast coast of New Guinea.

The Oceania Football Confederation ( OFC ) is one of the six continental confederations of international association football, consisting of New Zealand and island nations such as Tonga, Fiji and other Pacific Island countries.

* Papua New Guinea, a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and adjacent islands

Category: People by island in Oceania

Category: People by island in Oceania

Major expeditions that came to the island to record its biota include the Whitney South Seas Expedition in 1922, the National Geographic Society-Oceanic Institute Expedition to Southeast Oceania of 1970 – 71 and the Smithsonian expedition of 1975.

Category: People by island in Oceania

Category: People by island in Oceania

One of the most notable, recent and unsubstantiated claims regarding these islands is that the small village of Litao / Lotew ( usually reported as Lateu ; population 45, all related to one large lineage from Toga ), on the island of Tegua, has become one of the first human settlements in Oceania to suffer from the effects of rising sea levels as a result of global warming.

* Oceania by University of Sydney, Australian National Research Council-1930 .... An interesting and very ancient ceremony which, according to tradition, belongs to the Vuanirewa people who settled on the island of Nayau and became the ...

The East Asian Games is a multi-sport event organised by the East Asian Games Association ( EAGA ) and held every four years since 1993 among athletes from East Asian countries and territories of the Olympic Council of Asia ( OCA ), as well as the Pacific island of Guam, which is a member of the Oceania National Olympic Committees.

Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand

This group helped to populate Southeast Asia and Oceania, explaining the discovery of early human sites in these areas much earlier than those in the Levant.

Oceania, group of islands in the North Pacific Ocean, southeast of the Philippines

Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand

* Chuukese people, an ethnic group in Oceania

Notwithstanding, inter-country inequality is significant, for instance as a group the bottom 5 % of US income distribution receives more income than over 68 percent of the world, and of the 60 million people that make up the top 1 % of income distribution, 50 million of them are citizens of Western Europe, North America or Oceania ( Milanovic 2011: 116, 156 ).

In this group, such fronds are found in the genus Angiopteris, native to Australasia, Madagascar and Oceania.

Shortly after ( before the present ) a group of modern humans migrated out of Africa, spreading first to the Near East, then beyond to Southeast Asia and Oceania.

As this doubled as the 2004 Oceania Nations Cup, the top two teams from the second group stage progressed to a two-legged final to determine the winner of the OFC Nations Cup.

Chinese Australians constitute one of group Overseas Chinese and is the largest Overseas Chinese community in Oceania.

One of the most elaborate and beautiful artifacts of Oceania, the Drua was a product of considerable group efforts and human sacrifice.

Europeans remain a primary ethnic group in much of Oceania, both numerically and economically.

Filipinos form a minority ethnic group in the Americas, Europe, Oceania, the Middle East, and other countries in the world.

: In common practice, Japan in Asia, Canada and the United States in northern America, Australia and New Zealand in Oceania, and Europe, are considered " developed " regions or areas.

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests are common in several terrestrial ecozones, including parts of the Afrotropic ( equatorial Africa ), Indomalaya ( parts of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), the Neotropic ( northern South America and Central America ), Australasia ( eastern Indonesia, New Guinea, northern and eastern Australia ), and Oceania ( the tropical islands of the Pacific Ocean ).

Lagerstroemia (), commonly known as Crape myrtle or Crepe myrtle, is a genus of around 50 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs native to the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia, northern Australia and parts of Oceania, cultivated in warmer climates around the world.

In Europe, Vitis vinifera is concentrated in the central and southern regions ; in Asia, in the western regions such as Anatolia, the Caucasus, the Middle east, and in China ; in Africa, along the northern Mediterranean coast and in South Africa ; in North America, in California and also other areas like New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Washington State, British Columbia, Ontario and Québec ; in South America in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru and Brazil ; and in Oceania in Australia and New Zealand.

The language is spoken by the inhabitants of the “ northern continents ” of the future earth, the Ascians, who are enslaved by their masters ( the Group of Seventeen ) in a way much like the people of Oceania in George Orwell's book 1984.

: Oceania, archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, about half way between South America and Australia

Micronesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean.

* Full Circle with Michael Palin ( Travel 1996 / 97 ; Programme release 1997 ): in which he circumnavigated the lands around the Pacific Ocean anti-clockwise ; a journey of almost 50, 000 miles ( 80, 000 km ) starting on Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait and taking him through Asia, Oceania and the Americas.

An orthographic projection of the Pacific Ocean showing much of Oceania.

Oceania ( or ) is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean.

Opinions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific ( ethnologically divided into the subregions of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia )

Together these make up the nation of Papua New Guinea in tropical Oceania, located at the western edge of the Pacific Ocean.

Oceania, islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Peru to New Zealand, one of the most remote sites of human habitation on Earth.

* South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists, an organisation that governs the work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Oceania

The human history of the Solomon Islands, in the Melanesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific Ocean, spans over 30, 000 years.

Located in Oceania, Tonga is an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, directly south of Western Samoa and about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand.

Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania extending from the western end of the Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji.

Although East Timor is not situated in the Pacific Ocean and not geographically part of Oceania, it also holds observer status in the Pacific Islands Forum, but does not seek full member status nor associate member status within the organisation, as it wishes to become a full member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ).

PacCALL: The Pacific Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning, promoting CALL in the Pacific, from East to Southeast Asia, Oceania, across to the Americas.