Map of Oceania, 1884–1885
On 1 July of every year from 1884 to 1885, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 23 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 1 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 Western Australia | 2,610,000 |
| Colony of South Australia | 2,400,000 |
| Colony of Queensland | 2,070,000 |
| Colony of New South Wales | 813,000 |
| Dutch East Indies | 537,000 |
| Colony of New Zealand | 316,000 |
| German New Guinea | 290,000 |
| Colony of Victoria | 238,000 |
| Colony of Tasmania | 87,800 |
| British Western Pacific Territories | 48,700 |
| Colony of Fiji | 43,400 |
| New Caledonia | 36,500 |
| Hawaiian Kingdom | 26,800 |
| Kingdom of Tonga | 8,310 |
| Captaincy General of the Philippines | 4,830 |
| Tahiti Colony | 3,100 |
| Samoa | 2,960 |
| Empire of Japan (1879-1895) | 604 |
| United States | 590 |
| Pitcairn Islands | 559 |
| Niue | 252 |
| American Samoa | 234 |
| Wallis and Futuna Islands | 166 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1880–1883
Now drawn
German New Guinea
No longer drawn
none
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1884 Map of Europe · 1882–1885 Map of the Middle East · 1884 Map of Africa · 1884 Map of South Asia · 1880–1884 Map of East Asia · 1884 Map of Southeast Asia · 1884 Map of Central Asia · 1879–1885 Map of North America · 1881–1885 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1874–1884 Map of South America · 1880–1884
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.