Map of Oceania, 1890–1891
On 1 July of every year from 1890 to 1891, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 21 names within Oceania. The borders come from CShapes 2.0 (day by day), then OpenHistoricalMap (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year) — each drawn only where the records before it are silent.
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) |
|---|---|
| Western Australia | 2,530,000 |
| South Australia | 2,320,000 |
| Queensland | 1,750,000 |
| New South Wales | 801,000 |
| Dutch East Indies | 447,000 |
| New Zealand | 270,000 |
| Victoria | 238,000 |
| German New Guinea | 233,000 |
| Papua (UK) | 226,000 |
| Tasmania | 68,800 |
| Establishments in Oceania | 49,800 |
| Hawaiian Kingdom | 26,800 |
| German Protectorate of the Marshall Islands | 26,600 |
| German Empire | 24,900 |
| New Caledonia (France) | 24,000 |
| Fiji (UK) | 18,500 |
| New Hebrides | 17,400 |
| German Solomon Islands | 17,100 |
| Kingdom of Tonga | 8,310 |
| Tokelau Islands Protectorate | 1,010 |
| Pitcairn Islands | 559 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1889
Now drawn
German Empire, New Hebrides
No longer drawn
none
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1890 Map of Europe · 1890–1904 Map of the Middle East · 1890–1891 Map of Africa · 1890 Map of South Asia · 1888–1911 Map of East Asia · 1887–1893 Map of Southeast Asia · 1890–1893 Map of Central Asia · 1886–1911 Map of North America · 1886–1893 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1886–1898 Map of South America · 1890–1903
Source and method
Borders and names: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 + OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 · adapted by IntMap: the admin_level=2 relations in force from 1886, less the ground CShapes states on its own dates + 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.
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.