Map of Oceania, 1920–1921
On 1 July of every year from 1920 to 1921, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 22 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) |
|---|---|
| Australia | 7,710,000 |
| Dutch East Indies | 447,000 |
| New Zealand | 270,000 |
| New Guinea (Australia) | 240,000 |
| Papua (Australia) | 226,000 |
| 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 |
| Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony | 15,100 |
| French Polynesia (France) | 13,000 |
| Protectorate of Tonga | 8,310 |
| Empire of Japan | 7,940 |
| British occupation of German Samoa | 5,240 |
| Dominion of New Zealand | 5,240 |
| Cook Islands | 4,410 |
| British Solomon Islands Protectorate | 2,620 |
| Wallis and Futuna Colony | 1,010 |
| Pitcairn Islands | 559 |
| Nauru | 216 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1919
Now drawn
New Guinea (Australia), Nauru
No longer drawn
German New Guinea, Australian occupation of German New Guinea, Australian occupation of Nauru
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1920 Map of Europe · 1920 Map of the Middle East · 1920 Map of Africa · 1920 Map of South Asia · 1918–1920 Map of East Asia · 1919–1920 Map of Southeast Asia · 1919–1923 Map of Central Asia · 1920 Map of North America · 1918–1922 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1917–1923 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.