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4 unusual facts about Oceania


August 2007 lunar eclipse

Viewing from Oceania is favoured for the eclipse, because at the moment of greatest eclipse (10:37:22 UTC), the Moon was at the zenith of French Polynesia.

George Cowie

After retiring as a player, Cowie was active as a coach in Oceania, where he served as manager of the Papua New Guinea national under-23 team and the Solomon Islands national team.

J. C. Furnas

In addition to these books, he wrote several books dealing with the South Pacific, including a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as several novels.

No. 11 Squadron RAAF

Upon the outbreak of war with Japan in December 1941, No. 11 Squadron began flying long range patrol missions across the South West Pacific area; these would continue throughout the war and would sometimes be up to 20 hours in duration.


¡Uno!

"Kill the DJ" was released as the second single from the album in Europe and Oceania on August 14, 2012.

1986 FIFA World Cup qualification

Oceania (OFC): 0.5 place, contested by 4 teams (including Israel and Chinese Taipei).

2004 FIFA Futsal World Championship qualification

Each confederation — the AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean), CONMEBOL (South America), OFC (Oceania), and UEFA (Europe) — was allocated a certain number of the 16 places at the tournament.

2011–12 UCI Oceania Tour

Paul Odlin of New Zealand was crowned as the 2011–12 UCI Oceania Tour champion.

Aeolis Mons

Compared to the Andes, Aeolis Mons would rank outside the hundred tallest peaks, being roughly the same height as Argentina's Cerro Pajonal; the peak is higher than any above sea level in Oceania above sea level, but base-to peak it is considerably shorter than Hawaii's Mauna Kea and its neighbors.

Cantharidus

This genus is composed of marine species with a wide distribution, occurring off Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, French Polynesia, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Oceania, East India, Africa.

Denise Eisenberg Rich

In April 2013, as part of the Offshore leaks tax evasion scandal, financial records were released that showed that Denise Rich in April 2006 had USD 144 million protected from scrutiny by the Cook Islands in the South Pacific in the form of a trust including a Learjet 60 and a a 157-foot yacht called the "Lady Joy".

Eddy Etaeta

He is best known within Oceania for coaching Tahiti to their 2012 OFC Nations Cup title, and is known worldwide for coaching the team during their 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup campaign.

Eduniversal

The International Scientific Committee is composed of 12 members; 9 members coming from nine different geographic zones (Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Eurasia and Middle East, Far East Asia, Latin America, North America, Oceania and Western Europe), and 2 members from the Eduniversal Company (The CEO and the International Coordinator).

Edward Harper Parker

He intended to engage in the tea trade, studied Chinese, and from 1869 to 1871, in the character of student interpreter, he traveled in Mongolia, and afterwards he served in British consulates at Wenchow, Fusan, and Shanghai, and traveled in Oceania, Eastern Asia, and North America.

Evening Brown

Melanitis leda, a species in that genus native to Africa, India, Indochina, Oceania, and the Pacific Islands

Far Cry

Set on a South Pacific archipelago, the landscape includes beaches, dense rain forests, towering canyons, mines, swamps, and even volcanic forests.

Faren-Let's Go Finland

:1st Oceania Cycling Championships — Road Race, Gracie Elvin

Friends of Peoples Close to Nature

Oceania: the Tjapukai in Australasia, the tribes of West Papua - the Adivasis, Chenchu and Kurumba of the Indian subcontinent, the Kwaio and Landalanga on Malaita in the south west Pacific, (commonly referred to as Negritos)

Grant McConachie

In 1949 McConachie obtained landing rights at the Tokyo and Hong Kong airports that opened the door to CPA's highly successful transpacific service to Australia, Asia and the South Pacific.

Graphium browni

Graphium browni is a butterfly found in Oceania - New Britain, Duke of York Islands, New Hanover Island, St Matthias Islands that belongs to the Swallowtail family.

Jay Warren

Jay Warren was elected Mayor of the last remaining British dependency in Oceania in the general election held on 15 December 2004, defeating Brenda Christian, who had held the Mayoralty in an interim capacity following the dismissal from the post of her brother, Steve Christian, by the British authorities on 30 October 2004, following his rape convictions.

Jennifer Vanderbes

Each of the novel's different plotlines is linked to Easter Island, the remote South Pacific island famed for its immense Moai (statues).

Johnny Warren

Warren favoured a merger between the Oceania and Asian confederations that would allow the OFC nations to play in a regular qualification series, instead of the sudden-death matches playoffs.

Julie-Anne Derome

The group has played on all continents with the exception of Oceania and premiered over fifty works by Canadian and International composers such as Mauricio Kagel, Enno Poppe, Michael Finnissy, Pascal Dusapin and Jonathan Harvey.

Lee Shone

In 2007 Shone was managed by ex cruiserweight boxing champion Glenn McCrory and was coached by the Cuban olympic boxing coaches training with Team USA from The Contender Challenge UK vs. USA series for preparation for K-1 oceania 155 lbs tournament.

Mark Frauenfelder

On June 21, 2003, Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair, along with their two young daughters, decided to move from Los Angeles to Rarotonga, an island in the South Pacific, where they lived for five months.

Matsutarō Shōriki

The position of Chair of the Department of Asia, Oceania, and Africa at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is also named after Shōriki.

Nauru at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Sled Dowabobo was given a spot in the men's lightweight category, after being chosen as one of the highest ranked Oceania athletes in any sporting discipline, without having qualified.

Netball in Tonga

In the 1990 Oceania Netball Tournament, Tonga competed along with countries like Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the Cook Islands.

Paris Saint-Germain Youth Academy

Also, players from the ACP countries—countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that are signatories to the Cotonou Agreement—are not counted against non-EU quotas due to the Kolpak ruling.

Paul Tan Chee Ing

In Rome, he served as the Jesuit superior general's regional assistant for East Asia and Oceania.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne

Vincent Long Van Nguyen OFM Conv, auxiliary bishop for the western region and former assistant superior general for the Conventual Franciscans for Asia and Oceania

Sammlung für Völkerkunde

The collection consists of approximately 17,000 items and focuses on the South Pacific with the Cook-Forster collection, containing items from Hawaii, Tahiti, Tonga, and New Zealand, and on Siberia and the polar regions with the Baron von Asch collection.

Soviet Union–Tonga relations

In the mid-1970s, the entirety of Oceania was firmly aligned with the Western bloc in the context of the Cold War, and the Soviet Union, despite its eastern coast being on the Pacific Ocean, was excluded from participation in regional matters.

Susie O'Neill

She was the Oceania athletes' representative on the International Olympic Committee to 2005, when she resigned her membership (and was replaced by Barbara Kendall).

Tapa cloth

Masi could mean the (bark of the) dye-fig (Ficus tinctoria), endemic to Oceania, and probably the one originally used to make tapa.

Telescreen

In the novel and its adaptations, telescreens are used by the ruling Party in Oceania to keep its subjects under constant surveillance, thus eliminating the chance of secret conspiracies against Oceania.

Telescreens, in addition to being surveillance devices, are also the equivalent of televisions (hence the name), broadcasting propaganda about Oceania's military victories, economic production figures, spirited renditions of the national anthem to heighten patriotism, and Two Minutes Hate, which is a two-minute film of Emmanuel Goldstein's wishes for freedom of speech and press, which the citizens have been trained to disagree with through doublethink.

Volcanic Seven Summits

Even if this continent is defined instead as Oceania (thus adding New Zealand and Polynesia including Hawaii), Giluwe remains the highest volcano since it exceeds the elevation of Mauna Kea in Hawaii and any volcano in New Zealand.

Wayne Wong

Wayne is a member of the Hong Kong, China Davis Cup team, he debut for Hong Kong at age 15 years 332 days in a reverse singles dead rubber against Thailand in an Asia/Oceania Zone Group II First Round tie at Victoria Park in February 1997.

Women's football at the 2007 South Pacific Games

Papua New Guinea advanced to face New Zealand in a playoff game for a spot at the 2008 Olympics.

Women's Rugby League World Cup

Women's Rugby League had been played in both Oceania and the United Kingdom for several years but it was not until 1985 in Britain and 1993 in Australia and New Zealand where female only organizations and governing bodies were established and while the Rugby Football League recognized the British women in 1985 it took another five years for the Australian Rugby League to officially recognize the Australian Women's rugby league.


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