Map of Oceania, 1996–2001

On 1 July of every year from 1996 to 2001, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 12 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 New Guinea466,000
Indonesia (incl. East Timor)447,000
New Zealand270,000
Solomon Islands27,800
New Caledonia (France)24,000
Fiji18,500
Vanuatu17,400
United States17,300
French Polynesia (France)13,000
Palau662
Micronesia611

Open the map on 1 July of

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001

What changed since 1987–1995

Now drawn

Palau

No longer drawn

none

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1996 Map of Europe · 1993–1999 Map of the Middle East · 1993–2011 Map of Africa · 1993–1996 Map of South Asia · 1992–2001 Map of East Asia · 1992–1999 Map of Southeast Asia · 1996–1999 Map of Central Asia · 1992–2019 Map of North America · 1996–1999 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1996–1999 Map of South America · 1987–1999

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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