The Kiribati Islands, a remote country of 33 scattered coral atolls spread over more than 2,000 miles across the equator. It is the only country that is situated within all four hemispheres as its islands extend into the eastern and western hemispheres, as well as the northern and southern.

However, according to a World Health Organization report, there are 15 countries in the Pacific Islands:

• Northern Mariana Islands.
• Micronesia.
• Fiji.
• French Polynesia.
• Kiribati.
• Marshall Islands.
• Nauru.
• New Caledonia.

In the Atlantic seaboard, the largest islands are Cape Verde off the coast of West Africa and Sao Tome and Principe off the southwestern seaboard. In the Atlantic Ocean, the island of Malabo and other smaller islands of Equatorial Guinea are also notable.

Early white visitors divided the South Sea region into three great areas which they called Polynesia (“many islands”), Melanesia (“black islands”), and Micronesia (“tiny islands”).

Melanesia includes the islands from Papua New Guinea to Fiji. Micronesia includes small islands located north of Melanesia. Polynesia includes island groups from the Hawaiian Islands to the Pitcairn Islands. Micronesia consists mainly of low islands, while Polynesia consists of many high islands, such as Hawaii.

As it did so, tensions between the Melanesian and Polynesian people grew and, ultimately, a significant number of the Lapita people chose, or were coerced, to leave Fiji and settle in locations further east, such as Tonga, Samoa and other islands which are today collectively known as Polynesia.

Researchers have produced new DNA evidence that almost certainly confirms the theory that all modern humans have a common ancestry. The results showed that both the Aborigines and Melanesians share the genetic features that have been linked to the exodus of modern humans from Africa 50,000 years ago.

Melanesia

• Fiji.
• New Caledonia.
• Papua New Guinea.
• Solomon Islands.
• Vanuatu.

Australasia comprises Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. Along with India most of Australasia lies on the Indo-Australian Plate with the latter occupying the Southern area.

The Melanesia region includes Papua New Guinea, Australia and the island chains to the east including Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Fiji.

The Oceania region includes 14 countries: Australia, Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

According to Britannica, an island is a mass of land that is both “entirely surrounded by water” and also “smaller than a continent.” By that definition, Australia can’t be an island because it’s already a continent. Unfortunately, there isn’t a strict scientific definition of a continent.

Australia is the largest landmass on the continent of Australia. Oceania is a region made up of thousands of islands throughout the Central and South Pacific Ocean. The name “Oceania” justly establishes the Pacific Ocean as the defining characteristic of the continent.

Sheila –slang for “woman”, derived from the Irish girls’ name Síle (IPA: [ʃiːlʲə], anglicised Sheila).

The 10 most dangerous animals in Australia

• Box jellyfish (aka Boxfish, Sea Wasp, Fire Medusa or Stinger)
• Taipan snake.
• Saltwater crocodile (aka salties)
• Blue-ringed octopus.
• Stonefish.
• Redback spider (aka Australian black widow)
• 7 and 8.
• Great white shark.

Oceania, collective name for the islands scattered throughout most of the Pacific Ocean. The term, in its widest sense, embraces the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas. A more common definition excludes the Ryukyu, Kuril, and Aleutian islands and the Japan archipelago.

Asian/Pacific Islander (old definition) – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and Pacific Islands. This includes people from China, Japan, Korea, the Philippine Islands, American Samoa, India, and Vietnam.

The Philippines is part of Southeast Asia geographically. Is the Philippines part of Southeast Asia, Oceania or the Pacific Islands? Officially, of course, Filipinos are categorized as Asians and the Philippines as part of Southeast Asia.

Oceania is a region of the South Pacific Ocean that comprises multiple islands. The United Nations divides the region into four sub-regions: Australia and New Zealand (including also the Christmas Islands, Keeling Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, and Norfolk Island), Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

Australasia is the smallest continent. It includes Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and some of the small islands in between. The region known as Oceania includes thousands of tiny islands that are not part of any continent, spread out over a vast area of the Pacific Ocean.

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Greenland

The Largest Islands in the World

• Greenland (836,330 sq miles/2,166,086 sq km)
• New Guinea (317,150 sq miles/821,400 sq km)
• Borneo (288,869 sq miles/748,168 sq km)
• Madagascar (226,756 sq miles/587,295 sq km)
• Baffin (195,928 sq miles/507,451 sq km)
• Sumatra (171,069 sq miles/443,066 sq km)

Nauru

It’s the world’s smallest island nation Measuring just eight square miles, Nauru is larger than just two other countries: the Vatican City and Monaco.

Luxembourg

The three smallest countries in the world are Vatican City, an enclave within Rome, Italy. Monaco, a principality at the Mediterranean coast and an enclave within Southern France, and Nauru, an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.