Map of Oceania, 1924–1948

On 1 July of every year from 1924 to 1948, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 11 names within Oceania. The borders come from CShapes 2.0 (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
British Solomon Islands (UK)27,800
New Caledonia (France)24,000
Fiji (UK)18,500
New Hebrides17,400
Hawaii (USA)17,300
French Polynesia (France)13,000

Open the map on 1 July of

1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948

What changed since 1922–1923

Now drawn

New Hebrides

No longer drawn

New Hebrides / Nouvelles-Hébrides, British Western Pacific Territories, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, Protectorate of Tonga, Dominion of New Zealand, Territory of Western Samoa, Cook Islands, Empire of Japan, British Solomon Islands Protectorate, Wallis and Futuna Colony, Pitcairn Islands, Nauru

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1924–1925 Map of Europe · 1924–1925 Map of the Middle East · 1924–1925 Map of Africa · 1924–1925 Map of South Asia · 1924–1925 Map of East Asia · 1924–1936 Map of Southeast Asia · 1924–1936 Map of Central Asia · 1924–1925 Map of North America · 1924–1940 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1924–1962 Map of South America · 1924–1930

Source and method

Borders and names: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 + 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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