Oceania

Oceania

Orthographica Oceaniae geopoliticalis proiectio.
Oceania geopoliticalis

Demonymum Oceanicus; Oceanianus
Area 8536716 km2
Numerus incolarum 35,670,000
Civitates 14 * Australia * Foederatae Micronesiae Civitates * Insulae Marsalienses * Insulae Salomonis * Kiribati * Nauru * Nova Zelandia * Belavia * Papua Nova Guinea * Samoa * Tonga * Tuvalu * Vanuatu * Viti
Provinciae 25 * Atollum Johnston * Atollum Midway * Guamia * Havaii * Insulae Ashmore et Cartier * Insula Baker * Insula Clipperton * Insula Howland * Insula Jarvis * Insula Norfolcensis * Insula Paschalis * Insulae Cook * Insulae Ioannis Fernández * Insulae Mariannae Septentrionales * Insulae Maris Curalii * Kingman Reef * Nova Caledonia * Niue * Palmyra (atollum) * Pitcairn Insulae * Polynesia Francica * Samoa Americana * Tokelau * Wake (insula) * Vallis et Futuna
Linguae 28 Publicae Linguae publicae: * Bislama * Caroliniana * Chamorro * Cook Islands Maori * Anglica * Vitiana * Francica * Futunana * Gilbertana * Havaiana * Hindi * Hiri Motu * Maori * Marsaliensis * Nauruana * Niueana * Palauana * Pitkern * Rotumana * Samoana * Hispanica * Tahitiana * Tokelauana * Tongana * Tok Pisin * Tuvaluana * Uveana
Zonae temporales UTC+8 (Australian Western Standard Time) ad UTC-6 (Easter Island) (West to East)
Maximae Urbes Sydneium
Melbournum
Brisbana
Perthia
Aucopolis
Adelhaidis

Oceania est regio in insulis Oceani Pacifici tropici sita.[1] Notiones Oceaniae inter atolla curalii volcanicasque Pacifici Australis insulas (ethnologice in subregiones Melanesiam, Micronesiam, Polynesiam divisas[2]) et adeo omnem regionem insularem inter Asiam et Americam (Australasia Archipelago Malaicoque non exceptis) variantur.[3] Nomen aliquando adhibetur diserte ad significandum continentem qui in Australia et insulis proximis consistit,[4][5][6][7][8] atque in studiis biogeographicis ut synonymum Oecozonae Australasianae (Wallaceae et Australasiae) vel Oecozona Pacifica (Melanesia, Polynesia, et Micronesia, vel Nova Zelandia[9] vel Nova Guinea excepta[10]).

  1. Pro historia nominis, vide Douglas et Ballard (2008).
  2. "Oceania," The Columbia Encyclopedia, ed. sexta (Columbia University Press, 2005).
  3. The Oxford English Dictionary (Oxoniae: Clarendon Press, 1989), 20 voll.
  4. Lapsus in citando: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named OED
  5. Composition of macro geographical (continental) regions, geographical sub-regions, and selected economic and other groupings, United Nations Statistics Division. Retractatus 28 Augusti 2007.
  6. The Atlas of Canada. Retractatus 17 Augusti 2004.
  7. "Encarta Mexico "Oceanía"". Mx.encarta.msn.com .
  8. "The answer [from a scholar who sought to calculate the number of continents] conformed almost precisely to the conventional list: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Australia plus New Zealand), Africa, and Antarctica," Martin W. Lewis et Kären E. Wigen, The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, ISBN 0-520-20742-4, ISBN 0-520-20743-2), p. 32.
  9. Udvardy, A classification of the biogeographical provinces of the world (1975).
  10. Steadman, Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds (2006).

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