Oceania

Oceania (ōshēăn`ēə, –ā`nēə) or Oceanica (ōshēăn`ĭkə), collective name for the approximately 25,000 islands of the Pacific, usually excluding such nontropical areas as the Ryukyu and Aleutian islands and Japan, as well as Taiwan, Indonesia, and the Philippines, whose populations are more closely related to mainland Asia. Oceania is generally considered synonomous with the South Sea Islands and is divided ethnologically into Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

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Oceania

Collective name for the islands scattered throughout most of the Pacific Ocean. The term especially refers to islands of the central and southern Pacific, including those of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia; New Zealand is often included and sometimes Australia. In its most restricted sense, excluding Australia but including Papua New Guinea, Oceania includes more than 10,000 islands and has a land area of about 317,000 sq mi (821,000 sq km).

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Oceania

totalitarian state dominated by Big Brother’s omnipresence. [Br. Lit.: George Orwell 1984]

See : Totalitarianism