Australia
There is nowhere else quite like Australia, the only country that has a whole continent to itself. With an indigenous culture lasting over 60,000 years and truely global immigration from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, the continent is famous for its natural wonders, wide open spaces, beaches, deserts, "the bush", and "the Outback". However, it is also a highly urbanised, with cosmopolitan cities such as Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth.
-28137Cook Islands
The Cook Islands are a self-governing parliamentary democracy in free association with New Zealand, located in Polynesia, in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean, between French Polynesia (Society Islands) to the east and Tonga to the west. It is an archipelago with 15 islands spread out over 2.2 million km2 of ocean. There's no land between the Cook Islands and Antarctica, though they are quite distant from each other.
-19.2-159.7667Federated States of Micronesia
The Federated States of Micronesia is a country in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. It is composed of four major island groups totaling 607 islands that lie just north of the equator about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to Indonesia, to the north of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands and to the south of the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam.
6.9167158.1833Fiji
Fiji (Fijian: Viti, Hindi: फ़िजी) (sometimes called the Fiji Islands) is an archipelago nation in Melanesia in the Pacific Ocean. It lies 2000 kilometres north of New Zealand and consists of 332 islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu being the largest ones.
-18179Kiribati
Kiribati (mispronounced Kiribahs) is an archipelago nation in Micronesia, at the equator. Kiribati has 3.5 million square kilometres of sea territory, with only 811 square kilometres of land, divided between 33 atolls.
1179Marshall Islands
The Marshall Islands are a group of atolls and reefs in the Pacific Ocean, about half-way between Hawaii and Australia.
8.92849168.93677Nauru
Nauru is a small island in the South Pacific Ocean south of the Marshall Islands and is the world's third-smallest country; only Monaco and the Vatican City are smaller. An off-the-beaten-track destination if there ever was one, Nauru is also one of the least visited countries in the world, with about only 200 tourists a year. The remoteness and that much of the island is a charmless open phosphate mine are two strong reasons for this.
-0.527288166.936724Niue
Niue (Niuean: Niuē, NYOO-ay) is an island in Oceania located approximately halfway between Tonga and the Cook Islands.
-19.05-169.9New Zealand
New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa) is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, a country of stunning and diverse natural beauty: jagged mountains, rolling pasture land, steep fiords, pristine trout-filled lakes, raging rivers, scenic beaches, and active volcanic zones. These islands form a unique bioregion inhabited by flightless birds seen nowhere else, such as kakapo and kiwi. New Zealanders have adopted the kiwi as a national symbol, and have even taken the word Kiwi as a name for themselves.
-41.2174Palau
Palau (Belau) is a group of more than 500 islands, covering 458km², in the Micronesia area of Oceania, to the southeast of the Philippines.
7.35134.4667Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini) comprises the eastern part of the world's largest and highest tropical island, New Guinea, together with many smaller offshore islands. It has a long and un-policed land border with the Papua region of Indonesia to the west.
-6.3147Samoa
Samoa is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean. It is part of the region of the Pacific known as Polynesia. Its population is around 195,000 but many more Samoans live outside the country, particularly in New Zealand, Australia and the United States.
-13.759-172.098Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands are a South Pacific archipelago east of Papua New Guinea. They occupy a strategic location on sea routes between the South Pacific Ocean, the Solomon Sea, and the Coral Sea.
-8.80908160.83984Tonga
Tonga, the "Friendly Islands", is an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean.
-18.6333-175.2Tuvalu
Tuvalu is a group of low-lying islands and atolls in the South Pacific that form the fourth smallest country in the world.
-8.5167179.2167Vanuatu
Vanuatu (previously known as the New Hebrides Islands) is an archipelago nation consisting of 83 islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, north of New Zealand and east of Australia.
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