HOW TO PRONOUNCE
oceania
/ˌoʊ.ʃiˈæn.i.ə/
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What does oceania mean?
proper noun
- A continental region composed of the islands of the central and southern Pacific Ocean, principally divided into Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.
- That region plus in some definitions Australia and the Malay Archipelago.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌoʊ.ʃiˈæn.i.ə/
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Then, chart in hand, we reviewed the travels of the French navigator, his voyages of circumnavigation, his double detention at the South Pole, which led to the discovery of Adelaide and Louis Philippe, and fixing the hydrographical bearings of the principal islands of Oceania.
Without describing that mentioned by M. de Longperier, which we cannot confidently assert to be of great antiquity, M. Piette, in one of his numerous excavations, discovered a primitive flute made of two bird bones which, when put together and blown into, produced modulations similar to those of the pipes used by the people of Oceania; the monotonous music of which is alluded to by Cook.