Oceania

Oceania is a geographical (often geopolitical) region consisting of numerous countries and territories ? mostly islands ? in the Pacific Ocean, usually including Australia and New Zealand. For the oceans of the Earth, see Oceans.

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The primary use of the term Oceania is to describe a continental region (like Europe or Africa) that lies between Asia and the Americas, with Australia as the major land mass. The name Oceania is used, rather than Australia, because unlike the other continental groupings, it is the ocean rather than the continent that links the nations together. Oceania is the smallest continental grouping in land area and the second smallest, after Antarctica, in population.

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Island: An island or isle is any piece of land smaller than a continent and larger than a rock that is completely surrounded by water. Very small islands are called islets. Although seldom adhered to, it is also proper to call an emergent land feature on an atoll an islet, since an atoll is a type of islan...

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Oceania

Easter Island Landscape with Giant Moai Stone Statues at Sunset Oceania