Map of Oceania, 1922–1923

On 1 July of every year from 1922 to 1923, 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.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Australia7,710,000
Dutch East Indies447,000
New Zealand270,000
New Guinea (Australia)240,000
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
Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony15,100
French Polynesia (France)13,000
Protectorate of Tonga8,310
Dominion of New Zealand5,240
Territory of Western Samoa5,240
Cook Islands4,410
Empire of Japan3,970
British Solomon Islands Protectorate2,620
Wallis and Futuna Colony1,010
Pitcairn Islands559
Nauru216

Open the map on 1 July of

1922 1923

What changed since 1920–1921

Now drawn

Territory of Western Samoa

No longer drawn

British occupation of German Samoa

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1922 Map of Europe · 1921–1922 Map of the Middle East · 1922 Map of Africa · 1922 Map of South Asia · 1921–1922 Map of East Asia · 1921–1922 Map of Southeast Asia · 1919–1923 Map of Central Asia · 1921–1922 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.

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