Large group of islands in south pacific?
The large group of islands in the South Pacific is known as Oceania. These islands are classified as either the high islands or the low islands.
What is the definition of the region Oceania?
A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia
Where is mellanesia?
group of pacific islands from Papua New Guinea south eastwards to Fiji islands group.
What group of islands in the south Pacific did the US gain control over as a result of the defeat of the Spanish?
The Philippine Islands.
Island group off the coast of South Argentina?
The Falkland Islands is a group of islands located off of the coast of Southern Argentina. This group includes two very large islands and many smaller islands within the South Atlantic Ocean.
What continent is the polynesian islands located?
The Polynesian Islands are a loose group of atolls and islands in the south west Pacific: they are part of Oceania, which is not a continent, but a region.
Where is Samoan?
Samoa and American Samoa are both groups of islands in the Pacific Ocean about halfway between Australia and South America. Samoa is an independent country of two large islands. American Samoa is a group of five smaller islands nearby that comprise a Territory of the USA.
What does Fiji island look like?
Fiji is not an island. It is a group of islands creating a country. Fiij is similar to any other south Pacific Islands except that of Fiji is the hub of the Pacific.
Is Samoa part of Latin America?
No. Samoa is an archipelago (group of islands) in the South Pacific, close to Australia.
What continent are the Galapagos Islands on?
They are group of volcanic islands lying along the equator in the Pacific Ocean west of the mainland of Ecuador. Thus, they are not on a continent but lie west of the South American continent in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the name of one of the south pacific islands in Australia?
There are no South Pacific islands in Australia. Australia is a single country and continent in the South Pacific, but the South Pacific Islands are not within Australia. Australia should not be confused with the general geographical region known as Oceania.
What continent is Kiribati island?
Kiribati is a group of tiny islands in the South West pacific Ocean. It is not associated with a continent.
what major group of islands separate the pacific ocean from the Caribbean sea?
The Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea are separated by a continental landmass, not a group of islands. That continent is South America. Other parts of land in the separation are Central America and parts of North America.The Caribbean Sea is part of the Atlantic Ocean, not the Pacific.
Where is the Caribbean located at?
The Caribbean is located south of the state of Florida in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea. The Caribbean is a group of islands.
What location or continent is Fiji in?
Fiji is not part of a continent; it is a group of 800 volcanic and coral islands in the South Pacific Ocean.
What country in the Pacific Islands begins with the letter C?
The Cook Islands is in the south Pacific Ocean.
What is the name of the large island group off the west coast of the subcontinent of South Asia?
andaman islands
What island is at 20 degrees south 174 degrees west?
That point is in the south Pacific near the Nomuka group of Islands that is part of Tonga. The nearest islands appear to be Lifuka and Foa. The point is about 112 miles northeast of Nuku'Alofa.
What is the new name of the continent Australia?
There is no new name for Australia, it is and will always be known as Australia. In terms of it being called Oceania, that refers to a group of islands in the South Pacific including islands such as Polynesia.
What ocean contains the islands ans countries of Micronesia?
The Pacific Ocean. Most of the Islands are in the North Pacific but quite a few are in the South Pacific.
What islands begin with letter n?
Nevis Island, West Indies Naura, in the West Pacific New Britain, in the West Pacific, Bismarck group New Caladonia, Pacific, South west of Vanuatu, an overseas department of France
Is hawaii located in the midwest or in the west or in the south or in the northeast or in the southwest or in somewhere else?
Somewhere else. It's a group of islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Islands in the south pacific?
Fiji, Cook Islands, Solomon Islands and Samoa are only a few of them.
What ocean are the Polynesian Islands located?
The Polynesian Islands are in the south Pacific Ocean.
What are the islands to the west of south America in the pacific ocean called?
The Galapagos Islands
What was the Spanish empire?
'What was the Spanish Empire?' At its greatest extent it had much of South America, quite a large area of Central and North America, many Pacific islands and quite a large area of Europe.
Where is Vanuatu?
It is an Island in the Pacific ocean. Its in the Gilbert & Ellis islands. it is on the international date line. South Pacific Islands is where Vanuatu is located
What is the name of the group of islands south of Japan?
The group of islands south of Japan is known as the 'Ryukyu Islands'. These islands are officially named 'Nansei-shotou' in Japanese. This chain of islands stretches from Kyushu to Taiwan.
Which continent is Samoa located on?
None, it is part of a group of islands in the South Pacific. It is part of the geopolitical region of Oceania, which some groups, for various reasons class as a continent.
What South American country has historic ties to Asia and the Pacific islands?
There is a theory that natives of Peru sailed to the Pacific islands in rafts and settled there.
What are the ratings and certificates for South Pacific - 2009 Strange Islands 1-5?
South Pacific - 2009 Strange Islands 1-5 is rated/received certificates of: Australia:G
What are two groups of islands?
There are many groups of islands around the world. Some are island countries and some have several different countries within a single group. The Caribbean islands, also called the Antilles and the West Indies, have many islands that were colonies of European countries (Spain, France, Britain, Netherlands). The islands of Polynesia are widely scattered across the Pacific Ocean Countries of Asia that are island groups include Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Russia has a large… Read More
Are the salkland islands in the pacific ocean or Atlantic ocean?
There are no Salkland Islands. The Falkland Islands are in the South Atlantic Ocean.
What are the islands in the pacific ocean to the east of South Africa?
The Pacific Ocean does not border South Africa, it is bordered by the Atlantic and Indian oceans
What group of islands is Fiji part of?
Fiji is part of the South Pacific and is categorized as Oceania or Australasia. It is then sub-categorized and is grouped to the Melanesian countries which include Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Ni Vanuatu, New Caledonia.
Is Indonesia in the south pacific?
Yes Indonesia is one of many islands located in the Pacific Ocean
Why are Alaska and Hawaii included in the pacific region?
Hawaii is located right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and Alaska has a long chain of islands (the Aleutian Islands), running south-west into the Pacific.
How does New Zealand fit into a continent?
New Zealand consists of two large islands, and many small islands. If you look at a map of the Pacific, you will see that it is quite a long way from any continent. New Zealand consists of two main islands, which are the peaks of the submerged continent of Zealandia, which likes under the south pacific ocean east of Australia.
What is the name of the group of islands near the tip of south America?
The group of islands, located 300miles from South America's Patagonian coast is called Falkland Islands. They are one of the British overseas territories and not part of South America.