04/01/2012 · Oceania is a region made up of thousands of islands throughout the Central and South Pacific Ocean. It includes Australia, the smallest continent in terms of total land area. Most of Australia and Oceania is under the Pacific, a vast body of water that is larger than all the Earth’s continental landmasses and islands combined.

Oceania covers an area of approximately 100 million square kilometers, this is about one-fifth of Earth's surface area. The water-continent includes more than 10,000 islands. With a total land area (excluding Australia, but including Papua New Guinea and New Zealand) of approximately 822,800 km² (317,700 sq mi), it is slightly larger than Turkey or somewhat smaller than half of …

Oceania is a region made up of thousands of island s throughout the Central and South Pacific Ocean. It includes Australia, the smallest continent in terms of total land area. Most of Oceania is under the Pacific, a vast body of water that is larger than all the Earth’s continental landmasses and islands combined.

Oceania then, in its most restricted meaning, includes more than 10,000 islands, with a total land area (excluding Australia, but including Papua New Guinea and New Zealand) of approximately 317,700 square miles (822,800 square km).

Oceania is a region of the South Pacific Ocean that consists of many different island groups. It covers an area of more than 3.3 million square miles (8.5 million sq km). The island groups within Oceania are both countries and dependencies or territories of other foreign nations. There are 14 countries within Oceania, and they range in size from the very large, such as Australia (which is …

This is a list of Oceanian islands by area. It includes all islands in Oceania greater than 100 km2, sorted in descending order by area. No Indonesian islands outside the provinces of Papua and West Papua and any other island of the Malay Archipelago are included. For comparison, Australia is also shown.

Neither does the term include the Aleutian chain or such isolated islands of the Pacific Ocean as the Juan Fernández group off the coast of South America. The more inclusive term Oceania, in its broadest definition, encompasses all the foregoing; however, the term is used less strictly in this article to refer to the Pacific Islands as defined above