Map of Oceania, 1860–1863

On 1 July of every year from 1860 to 1863, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 19 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 4 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)
Colony of Western Australia2,610,000
Colony of New South Wales2,210,000
Colony of Queensland1,800,000
Colony of South Australia1,010,000
Dutch East Indies537,000
Colony of New Zealand316,000
Colony of Victoria238,000
Colony of Tasmania87,800
Hawaiian Kingdom26,600
Second French Empire20,000
Captaincy General of the Philippines4,830
Tahiti Protectorate3,100
Samoa2,960
United States590
Pitcairn Islands559
Niue252
American Samoa234
Wallis and Futuna Islands166
Tokugawa Shogunate134

Open the map on 1 July of

1860 1861 1862 1863

What changed since 1859

Now drawn

Second French Empire

No longer drawn

New Caledonia

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1860 Map of Europe · 1860 Map of the Middle East · 1859–1861 Map of Africa · 1860 Map of South Asia · 1859–1866 Map of East Asia · 1859–1866 Map of Southeast Asia · 1859–1861 Map of Central Asia · 1859–1873 Map of North America · 1859–1860 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1860 Map of South America · 1858–1860

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.

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