Map of Oceania, 1857–1858
On 1 July of every year from 1857 to 1858, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 18 names within Oceania. The borders come from OpenHistoricalMap (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent. 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.
| Name | Drawn area in view (km²) |
|---|---|
| Colony of New South Wales | 4,010,000 |
| Colony of Western Australia | 2,610,000 |
| Colony of South Australia | 1,010,000 |
| Dutch East Indies | 537,000 |
| Colony of New Zealand | 316,000 |
| Colony of Victoria | 238,000 |
| Colony of Tasmania | 87,800 |
| Hawaiian Kingdom | 26,600 |
| New Caledonia | 20,000 |
| Captaincy General of the Philippines | 4,830 |
| Tahiti Protectorate | 3,100 |
| Samoa | 2,960 |
| Pitcairn Islands | 559 |
| Niue | 252 |
| American Samoa | 234 |
| Wallis and Futuna Islands | 166 |
| Tokugawa Shogunate | 134 |
| United States | 126 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1856
Now drawn
United States
No longer drawn
none
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1857 Map of Europe · 1853–1859 Map of the Middle East · 1857–1858 Map of Africa · 1857–1858 Map of South Asia · 1857–1858 Map of East Asia · 1856–1858 Map of Southeast Asia · 1854–1858 Map of Central Asia · 1856–1858 Map of North America · 1854–1858 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1854–1857 Map of South America · 1853–1857
Source and method
Borders and names: OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 + 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.