New Guinea (area océanienne)
The New Guinea indicates an area of the Oceania in the southernmost part of the island of the New Guinea, itself in the South-west of the Northern Pacific Ocean.
The area is located at the North of the Australia and the Timor-Light , in the West of the the Solomon Islands, the South of Palaos.
Formerly, all the North of the island was occupied by Germany, and was named New Guinea. The South-east of the island colonized by Australia bore the name of New Guinea. Today New Guinea includes/understands New Guinea in its entirety as well as the surrounding islands océaniennes (except the other islands indonésiennes in the East).
The area is divided into two parts occupied by two pays :
- the Eastern half of the island of New Guinea and the surrounding islands form the New Guinea-News-Guinea since its independence of Australia.
- the Western half of the island of New Guinea and the surrounding islands form the province of Papua (called before Irian Jaya ), in Indonesia (however Indonesia remains regarded as a country of Southeast Asia, even if this area is in Oceania).
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