Oceania is a region made up of thousands of islands throughout the Central and South Pacific Ocean. It includes Australia, the smallest continent in terms of total land area. Most of Australia and Oceania is under the Pacific, a vast body of water that is larger than all the Earth’s continental landmasses and islands combined. The name “Oceania” justly establishes the Pacific Ocean as the defining characteristic of the continent.
Oceania is dominated by the nation of Australia. The other two major landmasses of Oceania are the of, which includes the country of New Zealand, and the western half of the island of New Guinea, made up of the nation of Papua New Guinea. Oceania also includes three island regions: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia (including the U.S. state of Hawaii).
Australia is an independent Western democracy with a population of more than 22 million. It is one of the world’s most urbanized countries, with about 70 per cent of the population living in the 10 largest cities. Most of the population is concentrated along the eastern seaboard and the south-eastern corner of the continent.
Alphabetical list of countries in Australia and Oceania: (Click on a country below to see related historical articles)
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Tonga
Tuvalu
V
Vanuatu
A chronology of historical events related to Australia and Oceania below:
Christchurch Shooting in New Zealand
The mosque mass shooting on March 15, 2019 clearly fits the exact same pattern as Dunblane and Port Arthur, as well as Columbine, Sandy Hook, Las Vegas and Parkland. The Christchurch terrorist attack also contains the same elements of part reality and part hoax; however, it was executed in a quite deliberate manner that was initially meant to convince the global audience of its authenticity. The ...
Findings Published in Science Journal Indicate Moon Rock from Apollo 14 trip Likely Originated on Earth
In findings published overnight in science journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, a sample collected during the 1971 Apollo 14 lunar mission was found to contain traces of minerals with a chemical composition common to Earth and very unusual for the moon. The sample was on loan from NASA to Curtin University, where it was investigated in cooperation with researchers from the Swedish Museum of Natural ...
Vatican No. 3 Cardinal George Pell Convicted on Charges He Sexually Abused Choir Boys
The Vatican’s third most powerful official has been convicted in Australia on all charges he sexually abused two choir boys there in the late '90s, according to two sources with knowledge of the case. A unanimous jury returned its verdict for Cardinal George Pell on Tuesday (Australian time) after more than three days of deliberations, the sources said, in a trial conducted under a gag order by the ...
Huawei Technologies CFO, Ms. Meng Wanzhou, Arrested by Canadian Police at U.S. Request for Violating US-Iran Sanctions
Huawei Technologies chief financial officer (CFO) Ms. Meng Wanzhou was arrested by Canadian police on Saturday, while changing planes in Vancouver. Meng is the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, who was previously an officer and engineer in China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). ( “7-Dec-18 World View – Canada arrests the chief financial officer of China powerhouse Huawei”) Meng appeared in a Vancouver court on Friday, where ...
Report: China Secretly Placing Military Scientists in Western Universities
China is reportedly enrolling military scientists into western universities to gain intel on areas like “hypersonic missiles and navigation technology.” The nation’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) came up with the moniker “Five Eyes countries” to denote the preferred targets for infiltration (America, U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), according to a new report released by a think tank tied to Australia’s defense ministry. “Dozens of PLA ...
In Facebook Live Broadcast, Elite Wife Blows Whistle on Pedophile Ring at ‘Highest Levels’
The widow of an elite politician has blown the whistle on her late husband claiming he was part of a massive pedophile ring that went to the "the highest heights you can imagine." Anihera Zhou Black has bravely come forward in an exclusive interview with The New Zealand Herald saying that her late husband was involved in an elite pedophile ring that went "deep and wide" ...
Australia Begins Issuing Fines to Citizens Who Refuse Vaccines for Their Kids
(Support Free Thought) - Australia’s Minister for Social Service, Dan Tehan, announced July 1st, the Australian Government will monetarily penalize any citizen whose children are not up to date on their vaccinations. The penalty, in the form of a reduction of government payments, amounts to $56 (AUD) monthly. Called the “No Jab No Pay” program, Australia aims to increase compliance with government mandated vaccination programs by taking ...
Children abused in almost every Australia institution, inquiry finds
Australian institutions "seriously failed" children in their care over decades with tens of thousands sexually abused, the final report from a five-year inquiry said Friday, calling it a "national tragedy." The government ordered the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in 2012 after a decade of pressure to investigate widespread allegations across the country. The commission was contacted by more than 15,000 survivors ...
Australian Archbishop Steps Down after Cover-Up Conviction for Child Sex Abuse
An Australian archbishop said that he will stand aside but does not intend to resign after becoming the most senior Roman Catholic cleric in the world to be convicted of covering up child sex abuse. Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson was convicted on May 22, 2018 in the Newcastle Local Court, north of Sydney, of concealing the sexual abuse of two altar boys by a pedophile ...
The Mysterious Death of Panama Papers Investigative Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
Caruana Galizia was the first person to learn of the Panamanian companies before the Panama Papers leak of April 2016. The Panama Papers are a collection of over 11 million leaked documents exposing shady financial dealings from more than 200,000 offshore entities, some dating as far back as the 1970s. When Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia began connecting the dots between corruption in her home country ...
