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Map of Oceania

The continent or region of Oceania has various definitions - with interpretations including Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, East Timor and parts of Indonesia. The name Oceania is used because it is the ocean and adjacent seas rather than a continent that link the lands together.

Oceania offers a varied landscape - with regions varying from forest to mountain range, to island paradises dotted amongst temperate waters. Due to the region's formation, the islands of Oceania hold a diverse range of animals and plants, often unique to their own island or region.

Highlights

• The Great Walks of New Zealand
• Uluru
• Hike on Franz Josef or Fox Glacier
• Extreme Sports in Queenstown, New Zealand
• Surfing
• The South Pacific Islands
• Scuba Diving: Marshall Islands, Palau, Solomon Islands, The Great Barrier Reef, Poor Knights Islands
• Gondwana Forests of New Caledonia, New Zealand and the Southwest Coast of Australia
• Native Cultures: Aborigines of Australia, The Maori of Aotorea and the many elaborate cultures of Papua New Guinea.

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By TJWest
November 30th 2009

Off to Bali guys!!!! Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Darwin

Well it's finally come around....BALI!!!! We leave for Bali tomoz for 12 weeks, for those that are coming to visit us THUMBS UP and for those who are not SHAME-SHAME-SHAME!!! We will have our computer with us so can still be contactable on e-mail. See-ya's [View Full Entry]

By CreativeHawk
November 30th 2009

Sydney - Australia Oceania » Australia

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After a perfect last night in BKK and a 12 hrs flight I touched ground in Sydney, Australia this morning. I am spending the first few days at Bondi Beach... unfortunately its a little cold and rainy the next 2 days. Today was good, though: while waiting to check into the backpackers I took a walk on the beach and across some rocks and met Patrick and Trent 2 Bondi Beach originals. They run a little private Fishing Club... nice peopz... [View Full Entry]

By CN Travels
November 30th 2009

Road Trip! Hawke's Bay and Gisborne Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Hawkes Bay

Mid Range on the way to Napier

Heading Out We had been talking about heading out for a few weeks, since we had been in Tauranga looking for work for nearly three weeks, some other people had left, and Carla got a job with the city that started in two and a half weeks. Just as we were preparing to leave the next day, we got a call from one of the employment services agencies to work a night shift at the fish factory. We went, we worked, we left the next day. We drove straight from Tauranga to Napier, having gone to Taupo before we made really [View Full Entry]

By ToobzInOz
November 29th 2009

It ain't half hot Mum! Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » Lilydale

Welcome to my first blog! I’m sorry that it’s taken me so long to get started, but here, to get you caught up, is the first half of a day by day account of my Aussie experience so far: Wed Nov 18 After a long but actually not too gruelling journey I landed in Melbourne at 6.30am and, a little over cautiously, sought assurance that camel’s milk chocolate purchased in Dubai wouldn’t be an issue at customs. This done, I emerged to find Sarah waiting, which was, well, tremendous, obviously - we’ve no current plans to self impose another three-mo [View Full Entry]

By apache2020
November 29th 2009

Hong Kong visit Oceania » Australia » South Australia

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Well we have arrived in Melbourne for what is possible the shortest visit every to Oz, we are here fore 1.5 days on our way to NZ. Hong Kong was a very vibrant place with lots of different architecture and parks. We were staying in Kowloon with a hotel room overlooking the amazing harbour views of HK Island and its many skyscrapers of the finance district. First night was spent exploring the night markets of Mong Kok with their wide variety of cuisines. We ate spiced hairy crab which was laced with amazingly hot chillies but Lisa turned her nose up [View Full Entry]

By Kisa
November 29th 2009

Bula Fiji Oceania » Fiji » Mamanuca Islands » Mana Island

BIENVENIDAS A LAS ISLAS

Español Bueno, pues como muchos sabreis el viaje empieza con pocas horas de sueño gracias a esas despedidas interminables que tanto nos gustan, :) y 26 horitas por delante de avion, vamos casi na´.... Las horas de avion se pasan pronto entre charlas, peliculas, comidas y algo de alcohol... Humedo es poco decir con el ambiente que se repira en Fiji/Nadi, 23 gradazos a las 6 de la mañana, nosotras encantadas, eso si! :) ...duchita y desayuno rapido y ahi que fuimos por 2 noches a una isla llamada Mana en un barco con gente de todos los paises amigos del [View Full Entry]

By 977
November 29th 2009

The Great, Marvelous, and otherwise Good Ocean Road Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Great Ocean Road » Torquay

Melbourne by Night

I've got an update on the Melbourne Hostel, looks like I got unlucky, the people who replaced the people I first stayed with were lovely, I had a good evening chatting with 3 new single serving friends, and even took a midnight excursion into Melbourne, which finished about 0230am, and gained me some nice photos of Melbourne by night. With the addition of a now clean room, some decent company and 2 beers, I'm going to upgrade Urban Central to 7/10, better than most! What is so great about the great ocean road you may ask? Well, pretty much everything to [View Full Entry]

By CheleShocked
November 28th 2009

Avacados for Andrew, Blue-tongued lizard for Belinda... Oceania

Today we drove from Melbourne to Mt Gambier. Our fantastic night out last night (plus my insistence on blogging, before packing, before getting to bed in the wee hours of the morning) resulted in a somewhat late start, however, so we ended up driving from about midday to 9:15. Except then we found out, it was actually 8:45, because we had travelled back in time/crossed the state line, depending on how you want to phrase it. It was a long and beautiful drive - roads slithered around mountains and along the cliffs for most of the trip - but frustrating, in [View Full Entry]

By Andy Beccy Brown
November 28th 2009

Australia - Part 3 (Ayers Rock / Perth / Margaret River) Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Margaret River

Ayers Rock
Beccy with a handful

Like most people, Geology has never really been my thing and my interest in rocks doesn’t extend past the sparkly, wearable kind. That said anything, let alone a rock, that has its own airport, commands its visitors to get up at 4:30am, divides them over climbing it and has two names must be worth a visit. It was. Ayers Rock, known to the Aboriginals’ as Uluru, attracts people to the middle of nowhere because of the array of colours it turns throughout the day; and from a geological perspective it is an astounding single piece of rock in near complete isolation. [View Full Entry]

By Margaretthedog
November 28th 2009

Our new friend, David. Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Taupo » Ohakune

HEY!! Things are looking up!! Karlene Jean may be coming out of her coma. The mechanic yesterday gave us much hope. We filled her up with some brand new oil and are keeping a close watch on her. I sure hope she makes it because we were planning to dress her up for the Holidays! Not to mention the fact that we have not even made it to the South Island yet...We will keep you posted, of course. Staying in Taupo for the next few days to see how she does. Speaking of Taupo...yesterday in my blog, I left out much [View Full Entry]

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