Map of Oceania in 1916
On 1 July 1916, IntMap’s historical map draws 22 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.
| Name | Drawn area in view (km²) |
|---|---|
| Australia | 7,710,000 |
| Dutch East Indies | 447,000 |
| New Zealand | 270,000 |
| German New Guinea | 230,000 |
| Papua (Australia) | 226,000 |
| Japanese occupation of German colonial possessions | 50,000 |
| New Hebrides / Nouvelles-Hébrides | 28,300 |
| British Solomon Islands (UK) | 27,800 |
| New Caledonia (France) | 24,000 |
| Fiji (UK) | 18,500 |
| Hawaii (USA) | 17,300 |
| British Western Pacific Territories | 15,700 |
| Australian occupation of German New Guinea | 14,100 |
| French Polynesia (France) | 13,000 |
| Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony | 11,800 |
| Protectorate of Tonga | 8,310 |
| British occupation of German Samoa | 5,240 |
| Dominion of New Zealand | 5,240 |
| Cook Islands | 4,410 |
| British Solomon Islands Protectorate | 2,620 |
| Pitcairn Islands | 559 |
| Australian occupation of Nauru | 216 |
What changed since 1915
Now drawn
Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony
No longer drawn
Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate, Tokelau Islands Protectorate
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1916 Map of Europe · 1915–1917 Map of the Middle East · 1916 Map of Africa · 1916 Map of South Asia · 1913–1917 Map of East Asia · 1915–1917 Map of Southeast Asia · 1915–1918 Map of Central Asia · 1913–1917 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.