Map of Oceania, 1960–1962

On 1 July of every year from 1960 to 1962, 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
Papua and New Guinea (Australia)466,000
Dutch New Guinea (Netherlands)414,000
New Zealand270,000
Indonesia33,100
British Solomon Islands (UK)27,800
New Caledonia (France)24,000
Fiji (UK)18,500
New Hebrides17,400
United States17,300
French Polynesia (France)13,000

Open the map on 1 July of

1960 1961 1962

What changed since 1950–1959

Now drawn

United States

No longer drawn

Hawaii (USA)

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1960 Map of Europe · 1956–1962 Map of the Middle East · 1956–1960 Map of Africa · 1960 Map of South Asia · 1951–1964 Map of East Asia · 1954–1971 Map of Southeast Asia · 1958–1962 Map of Central Asia · 1951–1971 Map of North America · 1959–1973 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1924–1962 Map of South America · 1946–1962

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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