*oceania* - ☯✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨🚀*THE 2ND NATURE*🚀

(spanning the ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ hemispheres, ‘oceania’ covers an area of ‘8,525,989 square kilometers’ (or ‘3,291,903 square miles’) and has a population of ’40 million’)

(situated in the southeast of the ‘asia-pacific region’, ‘oceania’ is the ‘smallest continental grouping’ in ‘land area’ and the second smallest in population after ‘antarctica’)

(the islands at the ‘geographic extremes’ of ‘oceania’ are ‘bonin islands’, a politically integral part of ‘japan’; ‘hawaii’, a state of the ‘united states’; ‘clipperton island’, a possession of ‘france’; the ‘juan fernández islands’, belonging to ‘chile’; and the ‘campbell islands’, belonging to ‘new zealand’)

(‘oceania’ has a diverse mix of ‘economies’ from the ‘highly developed’ and ‘globally competitive financial markets’ of ‘australia’ and ‘new zealand’, which rank high in ‘quality of life’ and ‘human development index’, to the ‘much less developed economies’ that belong to countries such as of ‘kiribati’ and ‘tuvalu’, while also including ‘medium-sized economies’ of ‘pacific islands’ such as ‘palau’, ‘fiji’, and ‘tonga’)

(the ‘largest’ and ‘most populous’ country in ‘oceania’ is ‘australia’, with ‘sydney’ being the largest city of both ‘oceania’ and ‘australia’)

(the first settlers of ‘australia’, ‘new guinea’, and the large islands just to the east arrived between ‘50,000’ and ‘30,000’ years ago)

(‘oceania’ was first explored by ‘europeans’ from the ’16th century’ onward)

(‘portuguese navigators’, between ‘1512’ and ‘1526’, reached the ‘tanimbar islands’, some of the ‘caroline islands’ and ‘west papua new guinea’)

(on his first voyage in the ’18th century’, ‘james cook’, who later arrived at the highly developed ‘hawaiian islands’, went to ‘tahiti’ and followed the east coast of ‘australia’ for the first time)

(the ‘pacific front’ saw major action during the ‘second world war’, mainly between ‘allied powers’ the ‘united states’ and ‘australia’, and ‘axis power’ japan)

(the arrival of ‘european settlers’ in subsequent centuries resulted in a significant alteration in the social and political landscape of ‘oceania’)

(in more contemporary times there has been increasing discussion on ‘national flags’ and a desire by some ‘oceanians’ to display their ‘distinguishable’ and ‘individualistic’ identity)

(the ‘rock art’ of ‘australian aborigines’ is the ‘longest continuously practiced artistic tradition in the world’)

(‘puncak jaya’ in ‘papua’ is often considered the highest peak in ‘oceania’)

(most ‘oceanian countries’ have a ‘parliamentary representative democratic multi-party system’, with ‘tourism’ being a large source of ‘income’ for the ‘pacific islands nations’)

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