Map of Oceania, 1908–1914

On 1 July of every year from 1908 to 1914, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 19 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.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Australia7,710,000
Dutch East Indies447,000
New Zealand270,000
German New Guinea248,000
Papua (Australia)226,000
New Hebrides / Nouvelles-Hébrides28,300
British Solomon Islands (UK)27,800
New Caledonia (France)24,000
Fiji (UK)18,500
Hawaii (USA)17,300
British Western Pacific Territories15,700
French Polynesia (France)13,000
Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate10,800
Protectorate of Tonga8,310
German Samoa5,240
Cook Islands4,410
British Solomon Islands Protectorate2,620
Tokelau Islands Protectorate1,010
Pitcairn Islands559

Open the map on 1 July of

1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914

What changed since 1906–1907

Now drawn

New Hebrides / Nouvelles-Hébrides

No longer drawn

none

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1908 Map of Europe · 1906–1908 Map of the Middle East · 1902–1911 Map of Africa · 1906–1908 Map of South Asia · 1888–1911 Map of East Asia · 1906–1910 Map of Southeast Asia · 1906–1911 Map of Central Asia · 1886–1911 Map of North America · 1899–1917 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1904–1916 Map of South America · 1904–1923

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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