Map of Oceania in 1893

On 1 July 1893, IntMap’s historical map draws 23 names within Oceania. The borders for this date 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.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Western Australia2,530,000
South Australia2,320,000
Queensland1,750,000
New South Wales801,000
Dutch East Indies447,000
New Zealand270,000
Victoria238,000
German New Guinea233,000
Papua (UK)226,000
Tasmania68,800
Establishments in Oceania49,800
Hawaiian Kingdom26,800
German Protectorate of the Marshall Islands26,600
New Caledonia (France)24,000
British Solomon Islands (UK)20,300
Fiji (UK)18,500
New Hebrides17,400
German Solomon Islands17,100
Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate10,600
Kingdom of Tonga8,310
British Western Pacific Territories2,620
Tokelau Islands Protectorate1,010
Pitcairn Islands559

What changed since 1892

Now drawn

British Solomon Islands (UK), British Western Pacific Territories

No longer drawn

German Empire

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1893 Map of Europe · 1890–1904 Map of the Middle East · 1892–1897 Map of Africa · 1892–1893 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.

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