Map of Oceania in 1500

For 1500, IntMap draws the Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent map of that year: 6 names within Oceania. The map also draws 2 outlines here that the source gives no name.

Names on the map

As the map labels them, largest first by the area of the outline drawn inside this view. Areas are of the drawn outline, rounded, and approximate.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)7,600,000
Malaysian Islamic states (a description by the source, not a name)392,000
Maori250,000
Tasmanian hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name)59,400
Tuʻi Tonga Empire24,200
Polynesians14,300

What changed since 1492

Now drawn

none

No longer drawn

Kō Hawaiʻi Paeʻāina (Hawaiian Kingdom)

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1500 Map of Europe · 1500 Map of the Middle East · 1500 Map of Africa · 1500 Map of South Asia · 1500 Map of East Asia · 1500 Map of Southeast Asia · 1500 Map of Central Asia · 1500 Map of North America · 1500 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1500 Map of South America · 1500

Source and method

Borders and names: Cliopatria v0.2.1 (Seshat Global History Databank, github.com/Seshat-Global-History-Databank/cliopatria) · CC BY 4.0 · adapted by IntMap: simplified, BC years made astronomical, and the ground OpenHistoricalMap (1689–1885, and from 1886 where CShapes is silent) and CShapes (1886–2019) state removed on their own dates + aourednik/historical-basemaps (github.com/aourednik/historical-basemaps) · GPL-3.0 · adapted by IntMap: each sheet before 1886 less the ground OpenHistoricalMap and Cliopatria state at that sheet's year.

Listed: every name whose outline IntMap draws inside 110°E–180°E, 50°S–10°S; 129°E–180°E, 10°S–25°N; 180°W–125°W, 50°S–25°N on this date, with the name the map writes on it. The list is worked out when the site is built, from the same records and the same code the map uses, so it says what the map shows — not more. Names are the source’s own, translated where the source or IntMap’s name table has a translation.

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