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Oceania

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O·ce·an·i·a  (sh-n-, -n-, -än-)
The islands of the southern, western, and central Pacific Ocean, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The term is sometimes extended to encompass Australia, New Zealand, and the Malay Archipelago.
Oce·ani·an adj. & n.
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Noun1.OceaniaOceania - a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)
Oceanica
Melanesia - the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania
Micronesia - the islands in the northwestern part of Oceania
Polynesia - the islands in the eastern part of Oceania
Pacific, Pacific Ocean - the largest ocean in the world
Translations

Oceania [əuʃɪˈeɪnɪə] n → Oceanía
Oceania [əuʃɪˈeɪnɪə] n → Océanie f
Oceania [əuʃɪˈeɪnɪə] ocean n → Ozeanien nt
Oceania [əuʃɪˈɑːnɪə] n → Oceania


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Then, chart in hand, we reviewed the travels of the French navigator, his voyages of circumnavigation, his double detention at the South Pole, which led to the discovery of Adelaide and Louis Philippe, and fixing the hydrographical bearings of the principal islands of Oceania.
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Oh, well-a-day and lack-a-day, the whirligig of time and fortune, the topsyturviness of luck, the wooden shoe going up and the polished heel descending a French gunboat, a conquered island kingdom of Oceania, to-day ruled over by a peasant-born, unlettered, colonial gendarme, and .
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