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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 14th 2009

2 weeks and counting!!!!! Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Darwin

We have now had more than enough of Darwin!!! Ready to move on. Troy had been taken advantage of way too much at his work so he told them to stick it a couple of weeks ago and quit on them, towards the end he was doing any where up to 10-15 hours extra a week and not getting a cent extra (but we do miss our freebies...coke/milk/water) My hours have gone down due to wet season up here and not as many tourists = not as many hours. So thank goodness we only have 2 weeks in Darwin left as [View Full Entry]

By ElAustraliano
November 14th 2009

Travelling Tattoos Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Newman

Argentina

all these tats are on my right arm ,my hitchiking arm, and each is from a different country [View Full Entry]

By Fully
November 14th 2009

Getting my Roll On. Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Plenty » Tauranga

Did you know that they only have roll-on deodorant in New Zealand? I have been searching for a regular stick for over a week now and have found nothing. I finally caved and bought some roll-on this week but I am not happy about it. LA and I spent the last 5 days in a Tourist/Surf town called Whangamata that is located on the Cormandel Peninsula on the East Coast of NZ. We had spent a couple days in Auckland last weekend(which is a massive and pretty cool city by the way) before heading down the Coast. We had plans of [View Full Entry]

By Sushijas
November 14th 2009

Hometown Fun Plus Auckland Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Rotorua

Crazed Rugby Fans
We went to the rugby match with a group of Aaron's coworkers. Some of them painted their faces in our team's colors.

You know how, for the most part, you’d rather be travelling? Same with us. Yes, our entire New Zealand experience counts as travelling - but really, we like it best when we are sleeping somewhere other than our own bed. Not to say that we haven’t had some fun in our hometown lately. We’ve done some distinctly NZ things here and really enjoyed them. First, the rugby game. We knew we didn’t want to let our time here go by without catching a rugby match, and we ended up going to one with a big group from the hospital. Rugby is [View Full Entry]

By TommyandZoTravels
November 14th 2009

New Zealand - Auckland and the Northlands Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland

A view from Aucklands Highest point
Looking back over the city. The tallest building is Sky Tower.

Auckland We arrived in Auckland airport at about 7.30am, after what was supposed to have been a comfortable night on a plane. The seats were great, with 4 bulk head seats for the 2 of us. Unfortunately people thought that this was a walkway for them to get from either side of the plane - muppets! Not only that, in the compartment in front of us there was a Chinese guy with tourettes. His tourettes was both in English and Chinese and very loud. He was swearing and shouting out terrorist, which doesn’t go down too well on a plane! This [View Full Entry]

By Ozeanien 2009 and 2010
November 14th 2009

Australien & Neuseeland 2009/2010 No.2 Oceania

Unser College

Hallo zusammen, am 5.11.09 wars nun endlich soweit. Es ging ab in Urlaub. Juhuuuuuuu! Nach ca. 44 Std. auf den Beinen bzw. die meiste Zeit auf unserem Allerwertesten und einer Verspaetung bei unserem Unternehmen Zukunft "Deutsche Bahn" sind wir gut in Hobart auf Tasmanien angekommen. Mit unserer Gastfamilie hatten wir bisher sehr viel Glueck. Alles easy going, so wie allgemein hier auf Tasmanien. Auffallend freundlich sind hier alle (like in Germany :-) ) Die erste Woche auf unserem College haben wir hinter uns und wie wir finden gut gemeistert. Die meisten der Schueler sind aus Asien [View Full Entry]

By hannmilli
November 14th 2009

Platypusses, Peter Andre and Kingie the Kingfisher Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns » Cairns City

Sharks Alive!

As my time in Cairns comes to a close, I thought it time to update you one last time about the happenings here in Far North Queensland. My work in Port Douglas came to a rather abrupt end after about 3 and a half weeks. The school holidays came to an end and there was no longer such high demand for housekeeping staff, so that was that. Thankfully I had kept up my Baskin Robbins duties, and the week I finished in Port Douglas, on of the Baskins girls left, so I could increase my hours once again. I also resumed [View Full Entry]

By Stelson
November 14th 2009

Kia Ora Queenstown, New Zealand!!!!! Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

Picture-perfect

Kia Ora Queenstown!!! This place is undoubtedly the Adventure Capital of the World!! You can do just about anything here from bungy (home of the bungy btw), sky dive,hike, jet boat, helicopter ride, canyon swing, ski, you name it! The scenery is a picture-perfect landscape and the town offers an Aspen like feel!! I LOVE IT!! When we planned this leg of the trip, we made sure we would be at the Best! And the Sofitel Queenstown it is! The hotel is in the heart of Queenstown and the service is in your face!!! LOVING IT!! Check out pics from the [View Full Entry]

By Sanje
November 13th 2009

Happy Friday the 13th! Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

Well lucky you guys! Posts two days in a row?! So, my plans changed at the last second and I am staying one more night here in Melbourne. The ferry to Tasmania was fully booked for tonight and I could only be put on a waiting list for tomorrow night, but I am so antsy to get down there that I just booked a flight for tomorrow morning first thing. The ferry would have been a wonderful experience, but who knows the chances of me making it off the wait list for tomorrow night and I already have so little time [View Full Entry]

By Golden Years
November 13th 2009

Glow worms and more Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Waitomo Caves

Waitomo Caves
Exiting from cave on river

Today we visited the Waitomo caves to see the cave-dwelling glow worms. This is a very special trip where guided groups walks down a series of stairways passing though a number of chambers into the limestone cave and there board a boat. The guide then pulls the boat along fixed lines in total darkness except for the glow worms attached to the ceiling of the cave. The glow worms give off a bright blue bio luminesence that attracts mosquitoes and small moths into the caves. They become entangled in the glow worm's mucus fishing lines and are eaten by the worms. [View Full Entry]

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