The cultural sphere of the Pacific islands is generally split betweenAustralasia,Polynesia,Malaysiaand theMalay Archipelago,Melanesia, andMicronesia, including the Caroline Islands (also known as the Federated States of Micronesia), various atolls, and the Northern Mariana Islands, located near the Philip...
Pacific Islands, geographic region of the Pacific Ocean. It comprises three ethnogeographic groupings—Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia—but conventionally excludes Australia, the Indonesian, Philippine, and Japanese archipelagoes, and the Ryukyu, Bo
Vanuatu consists of roughly 83 islands and atolls (65 uninhabited) in the South Pacific Ocean and the Coral Sea. Also, the Vanuatu archipelago is located in the Melanesia region of Oceania. It’s situated east ofAustralia, northeast ofNew Caledonia, east ofPapua New Guinea, southeast of theSo...
The Autonomous Region of Bougainville is a group of islands and atolls located in the South Pacific Ocean. Bougainville is east of Papua New Guinea and northwest of the Solomon Islands. In late 2019, a non-binding independence referendum was held in Bougainville, and over 98% of the people...
A map of Tokelau that displays its collection of atolls remotely located in the Pacific Ocean with points, bays, islands, and settlements.
They consist of innumerable small reefs, cays, and atolls between the Great Barrier Reef of Queensland and longitude 157°10′ E, and several remote and diverse islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans. These latter oceanic outposts represent the tips of submerged mountain ranges, many of ...
The Hawaiian Islands are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some 1,500 miles from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll....
Inhabited Territories of the United States (5): American Samoa: A group of islands (5 volcanic islands and 2 coral atolls) in the South Pacific Ocean, located about halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand. American Samoa lies just southeast of the Independent State of Samoa, from which it wa...
Map highlighting the 41 islands and atolls that comprise the coral reef ecosystems of the U.S. Pacific.Jamison, M. Gove
The Tuamotu Archipelago or the Tuamotu Islands are a French Polynesian chain of just under 80 islands and atolls in the southern Pacific Ocean. Rangiroa Fakarava Manihi TikehauAustral Islands Photo: LynxIV, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Austral Islands are the southernmost group of islands in French Polynes...