Oceania

Mostly ocean: a continent-sized landmass in Australia plus tens of thousands of islands scattered across a third of the Earth's surface, home to species found nowhere else.

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Quick facts

Oceania spans about 25,000 islands across the Pacific.
Australia is the flattest and driest inhabited continent.
The Mariana Trench, at nearly 11 km deep, lies within the region.

▲ Puncak Jaya, 4,884 m · ▼ Lake Eyre, −15 m

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Countries of Oceania

7 mapped, ordered by population.

1 🇦🇺 Australia Australia and New Zealand 25.36M 2 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea Melanesia 8.78M 3 🇳🇿 New Zealand Australia and New Zealand 4.92M 4 🇫🇯 Fiji Melanesia 889.95K 5 🇸🇧 Solomon Is. Melanesia 669.82K 6 🇻🇺 Vanuatu Melanesia 299.88K 7 🇳🇨 New Caledonia Melanesia 287.8K

Peaks

The highest ground on this continent.

4,884 m

Puncak Jaya

Sudirman Range · Indonesia

4,207 m

Mauna Kea

Hawaiian Islands · United States of America

3,724 m

Mount Cook

Southern Alps · New Zealand

2,228 m

Mount Kosciuszko

Snowy Mountains · Australia

Where to go

Featured destinations across Oceania.

Great Barrier Reef

Nature

The largest living structure on Earth — 2,300 km of coral, visible from orbit and built by animals a few millimetres across.

AustraliaJun – Oct

Fiordland & Milford Sound

Nature

One of the wettest inhabited places on Earth — and the rain is the point, since it wakes hundreds of cliff waterfalls.

New ZealandNov – Apr

Bora Bora

Beach

A sunken volcano ringed by a barrier reef, leaving a lagoon in half a dozen distinct shades of blue.

FranceMay – Oct