Oceania
Coral reefs, vast outback and scattered Pacific islands — a remote, wide-open region of sea, space and stark beauty.
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Oceania is the smallest continent by land but the most spread out, taking in Australia, New Zealand, and thousands of islands scattered across the vast Pacific in Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Australia dominates by size — a continent in itself of red desert outback, tropical north and coral reef — while New Zealand offers a compact landscape of mountains, fjords and volcanoes. Beyond them lie the island nations of the Pacific, ringed with reefs and lagoons. The defining quality is isolation and space: long distances, sparse populations and a sense of wide-open wilderness, with unique wildlife found nowhere else on the planet.
Because Oceania is so dispersed across ocean, air travel ties it together, and most trips focus on Australia, New Zealand, or a cluster of Pacific islands rather than all three. Australia's scale means flying between regions; New Zealand suits a self-drive road trip; the Pacific islands are reached by hopping flights between hubs. Seasons run opposite to the northern hemisphere, so the southern summer of December to February is warm and busy in Australia and New Zealand, while the Pacific islands are pleasant much of the year outside the wetter, cyclone-prone months. English is the common tongue across the main destinations, and itineraries are easily customised by region.
Featured tourism regions
The landscapes travellers picture first — some cross borders, all worth building a trip around.
The Great Barrier Reef
The world's largest coral reef system, a 2,000-kilometre underwater wonderland of corals and marine life, reached from Cairns and the Whitsundays.
New Zealand's South Island
A compact wilderness of fjords, glaciers and the Southern Alps — Milford Sound, Queenstown and a paradise for hiking and adventure sports.
The Australian Outback
The vast red interior of desert, gorges and ancient rock, centred on Uluru — sacred to Aboriginal Australians and unforgettable at sunset.
The Fijian Islands
A scatter of more than 300 Pacific islands ringed by reefs and turquoise lagoons, famed for warm hospitality, diving and easygoing beach life.
Tasmania
Australia's wild island state, with rugged coastlines, ancient temperate rainforest, mountain wilderness and a thriving food, wine and arts scene.
The Pacific Atolls
Far-flung ribbons of coral and palm — from Tahiti's overwater villas to the Cook Islands and Samoa — the archetypal idyllic South Seas escape.
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The countries our travellers ask for most — tap one to open its full guide.
LiveAustralia
Known for: Australia is the only country that occupies an entire continent, and the scale of it shapes everything about a visit.
Places to Visit: Adelaide, Albany, Alice Springs, Armidale
LiveNew Zealand
Known for: New Zealand — known in Māori as Aotearoa, meaning "land of the long white cloud" — ranks among the world's most scenically striking destinations.
Places to Visit: Abel Tasman National Park, Akaroa, Aoraki / Mount Cook, Arrowtown
LivePapua New Guinea
Known for: Papua New Guinea is the last great frontier of adventure travel — a country where the central highlands weren't mapped until the 1930s, where over 800 language…
Places to Visit: Goroka, Kainantu, Kavieng, Lae
LiveSamoa
Known for: Samoa is a 10-island Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific where ancient fa'a Samoa ("the Samoan way") still shapes daily life — village fono councils,…
Places to Visit: Apia, Asau, A'opo, Afega
LivePalau
Known for: Palau is a remote archipelago of more than 300 islands scattered across the western Pacific, roughly 800 km southeast of the Philippines.
Places to Visit: Koror, Melekeok, Airai, Angaur
LiveSolomon Islands
Known for: The Solomon Islands are a 900-island Melanesian archipelago strung across the South Pacific east of Papua New Guinea — a country where rainforested volcanic…
Places to Visit: Gizo, Honiara, Kirakira, Lata
All other countries
Every corner of Oceania is worth a trip — browse the rest below.
Timor-Leste
13 regions · 69 destinations
Timor-Leste (East Timor) is one of Asia's youngest and least-visited nations, having gained full independence from Indonesia in 2002 after a long and painful s…
Micronesia
4 regions · 66 destinations
The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is a sovereign island nation scattered across more than 2,500 km of the western Pacific, comprising four very differen…
Vanuatu
6 regions · 64 destinations
Vanuatu is an 83-island archipelago strung across 1,300 km of the southwest Pacific — a place where active volcanoes glow against the night sky, WWII shipwre…
Fiji
5 regions · 53 destinations
Fiji is the South Pacific in distilled form: 332 islands of volcanic peaks, white-sand atolls, and reef-fringed lagoons spread across more than a million squar…
Tonga
5 regions · 40 destinations
Tonga is the South Pacific's only surviving indigenous monarchy, an archipelago of 169 islands (36 inhabited) scattered across roughly 700,000 km² of ocean be…
Wallis and Futuna Islands
3 regions · 37 destinations
Wallis and Futuna is one of the least-visited corners of the inhabited world — a French overseas collectivity of two tiny Polynesian archipelagoes scattered…
Kiribati
3 regions · 33 destinations
Kiribati (pronounced Kiri-bahss) is one of the planet's most remote and least-visited nations — 33 coral atolls and reef islands scattered across 3.5 million…
Marshall Islands
2 regions · 29 destinations
The Marshall Islands are not a destination for box-tickers.
Tuvalu
8 regions · 21 destinations
Tuvalu is the fourth-smallest country on Earth — nine low-lying coral atolls scattered across roughly 900,000 km² of empty Pacific, with a total land area s…
Nauru
14 regions · 17 destinations
Nauru is the world's third-smallest country — a single 21-square-kilometre coral island marooned in the South Pacific just south of the Equator, between the…
United States Minor Outlying Islands
7 regions · 8 destinations
The United States Minor Outlying Islands (UM) are not a country in any conventional sense and not a destination in the ordinary sense either.
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