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 Oceania Region
Oceania/Australasia, in physical geography, designation sometimes applied to all the lands and islands of the Pacific Ocean lying between the equator and latitude 47° South. The region includes Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Caledonia and Dependencies, the Marquesas Islands, and a large part of the Malay Archipelago.
Some of the hotels, motels and resorts available for booking in our reservation network include, Ramada Inn, Marriott Hotels, Super 8 Motels, Econo Lodge, Holiday Inn & Holiday Inn Express, Travelodge, Hampton Inn, Sheraton, Hilton, Best Western, Hyatt and Hyatt Regency, Wyndham Inn, Ritz and Ritz Carlton, Days Inn, Courtyard by Marriott, La Quinta Inns, Comfort Inn and Comfort Suite, Embassy Suites, Quality Inn, Radisson Inn, Sleep Inn, Numerous Resorts and Resort Villas throughout the globe, along with Plaza and Plaza Suites and and array of private and Golf Clubs and Golf Resorts.
Select a country or location from the list below or to the left to see the hotels and motels throughout Oceania, that have reservations available through our network. Other countries are listed near the top of this page.
Oceania/Australasia
- American Samoa - a group of seven islands in the southern Pacific Ocean
- Australia - island continent located southeast of Asia and forming, with the nearby island of Tasmania, the Commonwealth of Australia,
- Cook Islands - self-governing island group in free association with New Zealand, comprising two groups of widely scattered islands in the South Pacific Ocean
- Fiji - independent island nation in the southern Pacific Ocean, located approximately 3100 km (approximately 1900 mi) northeast of Sydney, Australia
- French Polynesia - consisting of several groups of small islands scattered over a wide area of the eastern South Pacific Ocean
- French Southern Territories - Kerguelen and Crozet archipelagoes (see Kerguelen Islands) and the islands of Saint-Paul and Amsterdam, all located in the southern Indian Ocean
- Guam - island in the western North Pacific Ocean, unincorporated territory of the United States,
- Indian Ocean Islands - Indian Ocean, the smallest of the earth's three great oceans
- Micronesia - the islands of the Pacific Ocean east of the Philippines, and for the most part north of the equator.
- New Caledonia - comprises the island of New Caledonia and a number of smaller islands and island groups
- New Zealand - comprises two large islands-North Island and South Island-and numerous smaller islands, including Stewart Island to the south of South Island.
- Northern Mariana Islands - approximately 16 coral and volcanic islands, including all of the Mariana Islands except Guam
- Palau - part of the island group of Micronesia. An archipelago of about 200 islands, Palau is situated near the equator about 850 km (about 500 mi) east of the Philippines
- Papua New Guinea - the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, called the mainland;
- Vanuatu - consisting of a group of about 70 islands. Among the principal islands are Espiritu Santo (the largest), Malakula, Efate, Erromango, and Ambrym
The term Australasia is occasionally used to designate Oceania, which includes most of the islands of the Pacific Ocean.
Some "Australasia," information, Microsoft® Encarta® 97 Encyclopedia.
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