Colonisation of Oceania Colonisation of the lands in the Pacific Ocean The colonisation of Oceania includes: Colonisation of Australia Colonisation of New Zealand Colonisation of the Pacific islands See also[edit] Europeans in Oceania Indigenous peoples of Oceania References[edit] vteColonization, decolonization, and neocolonialismBy regionExploration Americas Africa Asia Oceania Antarctica — World oceans Colonization Americas Africa European colonies Asia Southeast Asia Oceania Antarctica Decolonization Americas Africa Asia Oceania GeneraltopicsExploration Maritime history (European) Age of Discovery Colonization Antiquity — Imperialism Chartered companies Interventionism Colonialism chronology history empires detribalization settler colonialism wars Current: Non-self-governing Dependent Colonial empires in the modern era Overseas, major: British Dutch French German Italian Portuguese Spanish Overseas, minor: American Australian Austro-Hungarian Belgian Couronian (Polish-Lithuanian) Danish New Zealand Norwegian Swedish Mostly contiguous: American Chinese Japanese Ottoman Russian South African Decolonization Wars of national liberation — Predecessors of sovereign states in Europe in South America Independence referendum Sovereign states formation dates Postcolonialism Independence Internal colonialism Nation-building Neocolonialism Postcolonial international relations Related concepts Decolonization of knowledge Terra nullius Plantation Settler Indigenous peoples Uncontacted peoples Christianity and colonialism This Oceania-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.vte