Oceania is a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands but sometimes including Australia—in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The exact scope of Oceania is defined variously, with interpretations including Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and those parts of Indonesia east of the Wallace Line.
For the oceans of the Earth, see Oceans.
Overview
The primary use of the term Oceania is to describe a macrogeographical region that lies between
Asia and the
Americas, with the
Australian continent as the major
landmass and consisting of some 10,000 islands in the Pacific. The name
Oceania is used because, unlike the other regional groupings, it is the ocean and adjacent
seas rather than a
continent that link the lands together.
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