o-shun-e-ah The islands of the Pacific and adjacent seas.
a name used for varying groups of islands of the Pacific Ocean , including Austrailia
the islands in the Pacific, including New Zealand and Australia
The islands of the central and South Pacific, including Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and traditionally Australasia. (Random House Dictionary, 2d ed)
An ocean world 26.53 parsecs from Earth. Where the Legacy crew encountered the cult of Rugooblipp. [ Atlas entry | 20 | 21
Oceania (sometimes Oceanica) is a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands and usually including Australia—in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The exact scope of Oceania is defined variously, with interpretations normally including Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and various islands of the Malay Archipelago. The term is also used by many authors and in many languages to define one of the continents. https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/as.html#Geo, http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/au.htm, http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/international/world/referencemap_image_view.
Oceania is one of the three superstates in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and is the location of the novel's version of London, where Winston Smith, the main character, lives.
The Australian academic journal Oceania was founded in 1930. It publishes contributions in the field of social and cultural anthropology, and its primary regional orientation is to the peoples of Oceania, primarily comprising Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia and southeast Asia. The central concern of the journal lies with papers that are the product of sustained ethnographic research, but review articles and papers that have direct bearing on the central ethnographic concerns of the journal are also published.
