Oceania, Oceanica

a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)

• archipelago — a group of many islands in a large body of water

• Melanesia — the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania
• Micronesia — the islands in the northwestern part of Oceania
• Polynesia — the islands in the eastern part of Oceania

• Pacific, Pacific Ocean — the largest ocean in the world