Oceania

OCEANIA

Oceania is a singular Earth continent.
The principal country is Australia.
The principal islands are New Guinea and New zealand.
The rest of the islands that are included in Oceania are divided into the subregions: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
Melanesia: New Guinea, New Britain and New Irland. Bismarck, Salomon, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fidji.
Micronesia: comprisinghundreds of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. Islands Marianas, Palaos, Carolinas, Nauru, Gilbert, Marshall, etc.
Polynesia: comprising a large grouping of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. New Zeland, Pascua, Mid way, Hawaii, Tuvalu, Tonga, Samoa, Societies, Marquesas, etc.

About 25 000 islands through ocean pacific.
Australasia
Australia andNew Zealand the most developed countries in the region. Eventhough they belong to Commonwealth of Nations the old dependency of London vanishes between an increasing Asian feeling, the increasing bonds with the United States and an important proportion of Asians and oceanians.

Micronesia
Is a subregion of Oceania, comprising hundreds of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. The mostimportant Islands are Marianas, Palaos, Carolinas, Nauru, Gilbert, Marshall, etc. The only empire known to have originated in Micronesia was based in Yap. Much of the area was to come under European domination quite early. Guam, the Northern Marianas, and the Caroline Islands (what would later become the FSM and Palau) werecolonized early by the Spanish. These island territories were part of the Spanish East Indies and governed from the Spanish Philippines since the early 17th century until 1898. Full European expansion did not come, however, until the early 20th century, when the area would be divided between: the United States, which took control of Guam following the Spanish-American War of 1898, and colonizedWake Island; Germany, which took Nauru and bought the Marshall, Caroline, and Northern Mariana Islands from Spain; and the British Empire, which took the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati). During the First World War, Germany's Pacific island territories were taken from it and became League of Nations Mandates in 1923. Nauru became an Australian mandate, while Germany'sother territories in Micronesia were given as a mandate to Japan and were named the South Pacific Mandate. This remained the situation until Japan's defeat in the Second World War, when its mandate became a United Nations Trusteeship ruled by the United States, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.Today, most of Micronesia consists of independent states, with the exceptions of Guam and Wake Island, which are U.S. territories, and the Northern Mariana Islands, which form a U.S. Commonwealth.
Melanesia
Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania extending from the western end of the Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji. The region comprises most of the islands immediatelynorth and northeast of Australia.
The most important islands in this region are New Guinea, New Britain and New Irland. Bismarck, Salomon, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fidji.
It depends of Australia in security matters.
Has ethnic conflicts (Fijians vs Indies).
Polynesia
Is a subregion of Oceania, comprising a large grouping of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern PacificOcean. Polynesia is generally defined as the islands within the Polynesian triangle. Geographically, and oversimply, Polynesia may be described as a triangle with its corners at Hawaii, New Zealand and Easter Island. The other main island groups located within the Polynesian triangle are Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Niue, Wallis and Futuna and French...