As an ecozone, Oceania includes all of Micronesia, Fiji, and all of Polynesia except New Zealand. New Zealand, along with New Guinea and nearby islands, Australia, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia, constitute the separate Australasia ecozone. In geopolitical terms, however, New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia are almost always considered part of Oceania, and Australia and Papua New Guinea are usually considered part of Oceania too. For the fictional superstate in George Orwells novel, see Oceania (Nineteen Eighty-Four). ... The Australasia Ecozone The Australasian ecozone – is an ecological region that is coincident, but not synonymous (by some definitions), with the geographic region of Australasia. ...
The primary use of the term Oceania is to describe a continental region (like Europe or Africa) that lies between Asia and the Americas, with Australia as the major land mass.
Oceania is the smallest continental grouping in land area and the second smallest, after Antarctica, in population.
The 7,686,850 km² Australian landmass is on the Indo-Australian Plate and is surrounded by the Indian, Southern and Pacific oceans, and separated from Asia by the Arafura and Timor seas, with total of 25,760 km of coastline.
Both geography and Oceania arise from culture and nature, created by people marked by their ethos as much as by the land and sea they observe in descrying the earth's contours or a particular region therein.
In Oceania's post-natural geographies, the indigenous and the global are not opposing terms, the one relying on roots sunk deep in native ground, the other on routes far-flung across the globe.
The interstitial and overlaying geographies central to globalizing the indigenous and indigenizing globalization rely upon conceptions and qualities of both depth and surface, the local and global, that which is territorialized and deterritorialized.
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