query: where is oceania on a map?

title: Demographics of Oceania

text: Demographics of Oceania Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania vary, with it being defined in various ways, often geopolitically or geographically. In the geopolitical conception used by the United Nations, International Olympic Committee, and many atlases, the Oceanic region includes Australia and the nations of the Pacific from Papua New Guinea east, but not the Malay Archipelago or Indonesian New Guinea. The term is sometimes used more specifically to denote Australasia as a geographic continent, or biogeographically as a synonym for either the Australasian ecozone (Wallacea and Australasia)

title: Oceania

text: a more recent temperature of recorded in 1995 in nearby Ophir. Pohnpei of the Senyavin Islands in Micronesia is the wettest settlement in Oceania, and one of the wettest places on earth, with annual recorded rainfall exceeding each year in certain mountainous locations. The Big Bog on the island of Maui is the wettest place, receiving an average each year. The linked map below shows the exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of the islands of Oceania and neighbouring areas, as a guide to the following table (there are no political boundaries that can be drawn on a map of the Pacific

title: Isochrone map

text: wishing to evaluate residential areas. An isochrone map of the London Underground network was made available in 2007. Iso4App is an isochrone map service (car, bike and pedestrian) available on Europe, Russian Federation, Ukraine, China, North America, Latin America, Australia-Oceania, South Africa; in addition iso4app implements isochrones on public transport. Demo is available at Tolosa (France). A time-based travel map that went viral was the Isochronic World Map, produced using data from Rome2rio's routing engine for plane, train, bus, ferry and automobile. It compared travel times from London in 2016 versus 1914. Free web app : isochron calculator www.owlapps.net/application-geomarketing Isochrone

title: Asia-Oceania Top University League on Engineering

text: the host country where they are studying, undertake a research project in greater depth and establish a greater network of peers than that provided by a short term exchanges. AOTULE * Asia-Oceania Top University League on Engineering The Asia-Oceania Top University League on Engineering (abbreviated AOTULE, pronounced "our tool") is a league consisting of 13 engineering faculties within Asia and Oceania universities. AOTULE's mission is to improve the quality of its member's educational programs and promote research activity among members primarily through exchange of information between deans, faculty members and administration staff at its annual meeting. It also organizes graduate

text: Asia-Oceania Top University League on Engineering The Asia-Oceania Top University League on Engineering (abbreviated AOTULE, pronounced "our tool") is a league consisting of 13 engineering faculties within Asia and Oceania universities. AOTULE's mission is to improve the quality of its member's educational programs and promote research activity among members primarily through exchange of information between deans, faculty members and administration staff at its annual meeting. It also organizes graduate student exchange programs and conferences where graduate students present their latest research results in an interdisciplinary format. The seeds for forming AOTULE began in 2006 with discussions between senior engineering faculty

title: Renewable energy in Oceania

text: April 2009, the government of Tonga sought to reduce this costly petroleum dependency by developing a plan, subsequently called the Tonga Energy Road Map 2010 – 2020 (TERM). Renewable electricity generation is expected to grow from 5.4% in 2013 to 13% in 2018. Renewable electricity generation rose from 4% in 2013 to 43% in 2016. Renewable energy in Oceania This article gives a summary of the status of renewable energy in Oceania. The Pacific island nations are heavily dependent on costly fossil fuel imports, so they are turning, to varying degrees, to renewable energy. Options include household photovoltaic (PV) systems

title: A Blank on the Map

text: A Blank on the Map A Blank on the Map is a Television documentary made by the BBC which was written and presented by David Attenborough filmed in New Guinea. It was first transmitted in the UK on 29 December 1971 and is now available on the DVD collection "Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages". The documentary follows Attenborough as he joins Ambunti Patrol No 19/1970-71 (3 May to 10 June 1971), led by ADC Laurie Bragge, crossing through a previously unexplored region in search of an uncontacted people known as the Bikaru. However a setback is encountered when

title: A Blank on the Map

text: the BBC crew were flown out and the rest of the patrol returned to Ambunti. Ambunti Patrol No 19/1970-7 report http://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb0172517z A Blank on the Map A Blank on the Map is a Television documentary made by the BBC which was written and presented by David Attenborough filmed in New Guinea. It was first transmitted in the UK on 29 December 1971 and is now available on the DVD collection "Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages". The documentary follows Attenborough as he joins Ambunti Patrol No 19/1970-71 (3 May to 10 June 1971), led by ADC Laurie Bragge, crossing

title: Oceania Athletics Association

text: regional competitions". This also applies for Tokelau where the first athletics event ever took place recently. In 2008, New Caledonia became the first Associate Member, Niue followed in 2009. Oceania Athletics Association The Oceania Athletics Association (OAA) is the governing body for the sport of athletics in Oceania. The OAA head office is located in Varsity Lakes, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The OAA was founded as Oceania Amateur Athletic Organization (OAAA) on August 21, 1969, during a "Congress of the delegates of Member Countries of the Australasian Area" held in Port Moresby, then Territory of Papua and New Guinea, at

title: 2009 flu pandemic in Oceania

text: 2009 flu pandemic in Oceania The 2009 flu pandemic in Oceania, part of an epidemic in 2009 of a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1 causing what has been commonly called swine flu, has (as of 27 June 2009) afflicted at over 22,000 people in Oceania, with 56 confirmed deaths. Almost all of the cases in Oceania have been in Australia, where the majority of cases have resulted from internal community spread of the virus. In addition, the government of New Zealand, where most of the remainder of cases in Oceania have occurred, is on high alert for

title: Monarchies in Oceania

text: Monarchies in Oceania There are six monarchies in Oceania; that is: self-governing sovereign states in Oceania where supreme power resides with an individual hereditary head, who is recognised as the head of state. Each is a constitutional monarchy, wherein the sovereign inherits his or her office, usually keeps it until death or abdication, and is bound by laws and customs in the exercise of their powers. Five of these independent states share Queen Elizabeth II as their respective head of state, making them part of a global grouping known as the Commonwealth realms; in addition, all monarchies of Oceania are

title: FIBA Oceania

text: FIBA Oceania FIBA Oceania is a zone within FIBA (International Basketball Federation). It is one of FIBA's five continental confederations. FIBA Oceania is responsible for the organization and governance of the major international tournaments in Oceania. It has 22 FIBA Federations and is headquartered in Southport, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The current FIBA Oceania President is Burton Shipley from New Zealand. Its prime events were the FIBA Oceania Championship for men and the FIBA Oceania Women's Championship. The men's championship, established in 1971, was dominated by Australia. Yet, on some occasions, New Zealand defeated its rival, which was first accomplished

title: Oceania

text: at this scale). The demographic table below shows the subregions and countries of geopolitical Oceania. The countries and territories in this table are categorised according to the scheme for geographic subregions used by the United Nations. The information shown follows sources in cross-referenced articles; where sources differ, provisos have been clearly indicated. These territories and regions are subject to various additional categorisations, depending on the source and purpose of each description. The predominant religion in Oceania is Christianity (73%). A 2011 survey found that 92% in Melanesia, 93% in Micronesia and 96% in Polynesia described themselves as Christians. Traditional religions

title: Netball in Oceania

text: years. The popularity of netball is growing amongst men on the island countries in Oceania, because sport is an important way for villages to keep in touch with each other. The game's popularity can also be seen in local languages, where words have been created to describe it. In Niue, the words include neteplo, pelê neteplo, pelê. The Oceania Netball Federation (ONF) is the governing body for netball in the Oceania region. In New Zealand, netball is the most popular women's participation sport. In 1984, there were 114,210 players. There are over 11,000 teams and 120,440 players. The only sport

title: Demographics of Oceania

text: or the Pacific ecozone (Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia apart either from New Zealand or from mainland New Guinea). Although Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands belong to the Commonwealth of Australia and are inhabited, they are nearer Indonesia than the Australian mainland, and are commonly associated with Asia instead of Oceania. The demographic table below shows all inhabited states and territories of Oceania. The information in this chart comes from the CIA World Factbook or the United States Department of State, unless noted otherwise or not available (NA); where sources differ, references are included. Demographics of Oceania Oceania is

title: Oceania Rugby Cup

text: title with Tahiti finishing as runner-up. Competing nations in the FORU Oceania Cup are: Note: The Band 1 teams from Oceania (Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Samoa, and Tonga) do not participate in the FORU Oceania Cup. Winners and runners-up for official FORU and IRB (WR) developmental tournaments in Oceania: Oceania tournaments Oceania Cup Notes: Oceania Rugby Cup The Oceania Cup is an international rugby union competition for countries and territories from Oceania with national teams in the developmental band. It is administered by Oceania Rugby (formerly known as FORU). The tournament has been played under various formats depending on the

title: Oceania

text: Oceania Oceania (, , ) is a geographic region comprising Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Spanning the eastern and western hemispheres, Oceania covers an area of and has a population of /1e6 round 0 million. Situated in the southeast of the Asia-Pacific region, Oceania is the smallest continental grouping in land area and the second smallest in population after Antarctica. The islands at the geographic extremes of Oceania are the Bonin Islands, a politically integral part of Japan; Hawaii, a state of the United States; Clipperton Island, a possession of France; the Juan Fernández Islands, belonging to Chile; and the

title: RV Oceania

text: RV Oceania RV "Oceania, or SY "Oceania, is a tall ship, owned by the Polish Academy of Sciences, and used as a research vessel. She was built in 1985 in the Gdańsk Shipyard in Poland, after the design of Zygmunt Choreń. The hull was based on plans of earlier tall ships: ORP "Iskra II" and "Pogoria", but its rigging was different. "Oceania" was originally a full rigged ship, with three masts (each 32 metres high). On every mast there was only one sail, in the shape of a vertical rectangle (sometimes "Oceania" was classified as a frigate), but later the

title: Monarchies in Oceania

text: referendum to become an overseas collectivity of France, effective in 1961. The collectivity is governed as a parliamentary republic, the citizens elect a Territorial Assembly, the President of which becomes head of government. His cabinet, the Council of the Territory, is made up of the three Kings and three appointed ministers. In addition to this limited parliamentary role the Kings play, the individual kingdoms' customary legal systems have some jurisdiction in areas of civil law. Monarchies in Oceania There are six monarchies in Oceania; that is: self-governing sovereign states in Oceania where supreme power resides with an individual hereditary head,

title: Oceania Football Confederation

text: Oceania Football Confederation The Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) is one of the six continental confederations of international association football, consisting of New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Tonga, and other Pacific Island countries. It promotes the game in Oceania and allows the member nations to qualify for the FIFA World Cup. OFC is predominantly made up of island nations where association football is not the most popular sport. Consequently, the OFC has little influence in the wider football world, either in terms of international competition or as a source of players for high-profile club competitions. In 2006, the OFC's largest

title: Oceania

text: geography. The island of Hawaii for example hosts 4 (out of 5 in total) climate groups on a surface as small as according to the Köppen climate types: tropical, arid, temperate and polar. The Hawaiian Islands receive most of their precipitation during the winter months (October to April). A few islands in the northwest, such as Guam, are susceptible to typhoons in the wet season. The highest recorded temperature in Oceania occurred in Oodnadatta, South Australia (2 January 1960), where the temperature reached . The lowest temperature ever recorded in Oceania was , at Ranfurly in Otago in 1903, with

title: Australia on the Map

text: Australia on the Map Australia on the Map is the history and heritage division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society. It seeks to enhance Australians’ knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the nation’s early history, beginning in 1606 with the voyages of Willem Janszoon in the "Duyfken" and Luis Váez de Torres in "Los Tres Reyes" and "San Pedro", and continuing to the present. Australia on the Map Division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society is the successor organisation to Australia on the Map: 1606–2006. Australia on the Map: 1606–2006 was formed by Peter Reynders and Rupert Gerritsen in 2002 as the vehicle

title: Australian rules football in Oceania

text: Gold Coast, Queensland set up a Rec Footy competition. The program expanded in 2008 to include an Auskick junior development program. The AFL Vanuatu was formally created in 2010, and nominated five Vanuatu local youths to compete at the Under 16s Oceania Cup, to be held in Tonga in December 2010. Australian rules football in Oceania Australian rules football in Oceania is the sport of Australian rules football as it is watched and played in the Oceanian continent. Today the sport is most popular in Nauru where it is the national sport, and Australia, where the AFL is the most

title: Oceania (song)

text: The DB'z, Droop-E and B-Slimm on his 2010 "" album. SPIRITWO and singer Yael Claire covered "Oceania" with a Middle Eastern theme for the 2012 London Olympic games. Aspirant singer Srbuhi Hovhannisyan also covered the song on "The Voice of Armenia" in 2014. "Oceania" covers also appear on the albums by Beliss, Harmen Fraanje Quintet, Murphy's Law and Serena Fortebraccio. Credits adapted from "Medúlla" liner notes. Oceania (song) "Oceania" is a song recorded by Icelandic singer Björk for her sixth studio album "Medúlla". It was written and produced by Björk, with additional writing by Sjón and production by Mark Bell.

title: RV Oceania

text: yards and the sail from the mizzen-mast were removed. Sails are raised and driven hydraulically. The ship is equipped with laboratories able to provide hydrographic, optic, acoustic, chemical, biological and particulate experiments and observations. RV Oceania RV "Oceania, or SY "Oceania, is a tall ship, owned by the Polish Academy of Sciences, and used as a research vessel. She was built in 1985 in the Gdańsk Shipyard in Poland, after the design of Zygmunt Choreń. The hull was based on plans of earlier tall ships: ORP "Iskra II" and "Pogoria", but its rigging was different. "Oceania" was originally a full

title: Oceania Cruises

text: designed by the Norway-based Y&S Architecture and Interior Design. Africa, Arabia, Black Sea, Caribbean, Central America, China, Greek Isles, Iceland, India, Mediterranean, Alaska, Mexico, Russia, Scandinavia, South America, Southeast Asia In December 2016, it was announced that Oceania Cruises has reached an agreement with the Cuban government. In March 2018, Oceania Cruises announced a 180-day World Cruise in 2020 with calls at 95 ports in 38 countries on 4 continents. Oceania Cruises Oceania Cruises is a Miami, Florida, United States-based shipping company that operates six premium cruise ships on worldwide itineraries. The sixth ship, formerly "Ocean Princess" and renamed "Sirena",

title: FIBA Oceania

text: in 1978. Australia was even more dominant in the women's tournament, first held in 1974; the Opals won all but one of its editions, with New Zealand winning only the 1993 edition. Both Oceania Championships held their last editions in 2015. Since then, FIBA Oceania and FIBA Asia national teams compete for a single championship for each sex—the men's FIBA Asia Cup and the FIBA Women's Asia Cup. FIBA Oceania FIBA Oceania is a zone within FIBA (International Basketball Federation). It is one of FIBA's five continental confederations. FIBA Oceania is responsible for the organization and governance of the major

title: Oceania Cycling Confederation

text: Oceania Cycling Confederation The national federations of the UCI form confederations by continent. In Oceania, this body is the Oceania Cycling Confederation, also shortened to OCC. Michael Turtur from South Australia was President of the Union Cycliste Internationale's Oceania Cycling Confederation from 2008 to 2012, taking over from Ray Godkin from Sydney, Australia, who retired from the position in late 2008 following 22 years as the President. As a result, Michael Turtur has a seat on the U.C.I. board (representing Oceania) on the Management Committee of the International Cycling Union. On 2 December 2012, former Olympic athlete Tracey Gaudry was

title: Australia on the Map

text: the Map Division has help to facilitate one documentary, and is assisting a number of other documentaries in development. Commemorative Infrastructure being promoted by the Australia on the Map Division includes the concepts an Explorers Commemorative Area in the Parliamentary Triangle in Canberra and a National Events Corporation. Research Projects undertaken by the Australia on the Map Division include the online translation of the VOC Charter and the current Search for the Deadwater Wreck. Australia on the Map endeavours to foster commemorations of significant landmarks in early Australian history. In 2011 it promoted the 200th anniversary of the publication of

title: Oceania Athletics Association

text: Oceania Athletics Association The Oceania Athletics Association (OAA) is the governing body for the sport of athletics in Oceania. The OAA head office is located in Varsity Lakes, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The OAA was founded as Oceania Amateur Athletic Organization (OAAA) on August 21, 1969, during a "Congress of the delegates of Member Countries of the Australasian Area" held in Port Moresby, then Territory of Papua and New Guinea, at the time of the 3rd South Pacific Games. The name was changed to Oceania Athletics Organization in February 2007. The current president of the association, Geoff Gardner (Norfolk Island)

title: 2019 Rugby World Cup – Oceania qualification

text: 2019 Rugby World Cup – Oceania qualification Qualifying for the 2019 Rugby World Cup for Oceania Rugby began in June 2016, where across 2 years, 3 teams competed for two direct qualification spots from Oceania. While two places were available to Oceania in a cross-regional play-off series' to qualify for the World Cup and or advance through the Repechage. Two teams from the Oceania region, New Zealand and Australia, qualified automatically for the 2019 World Cup by finishing in the top 12 in the 2015 World Cup. Fiji and Tonga qualified by finishing first and second (on aggregate) in the

title: Oceania

text: Islands, all on the margins of Asia, and the Aleutian Islands of North America. In its periphery, Oceania sprawls 28 degrees north to the Bonin Islands in the northern hemisphere, and 55 degrees south to Macquarie Island in the southern hemisphere. Oceanian islands are of four basic types: continental islands, high islands, coral reefs and uplifted coral platforms. High islands are of volcanic origin, and many contain active volcanoes. Among these are Bougainville, Hawaii, and Solomon Islands. Oceania is one of eight terrestrial ecozones, which constitute the major ecological regions of the planet. Related to these concepts are Near Oceania,

title: Oceania Chess Championship

text: Oceania Chess Championship Leading chess players from the FIDE Oceania Zone 3.6 are allowed to play in the Oceania Chess Championships. The tournament is conducted by the FIDE Oceania Zone President and Oceania Chess Confederation under the auspices of the world chess federation, FIDE. Before January 2012, the Oceania Chess Championship was scheduled as part of the FIDE World Chess Championship cycle, and winners qualified to represent the FIDE Oceania Zone at the Chess World Cup. Since 2012 the Oceania Chess Championship has been held every year, with only each alternate (odd numbered) year acting as the Oceania Zone Championship

title: Oceania Rugby Cup

text: Oceania Rugby Cup The Oceania Cup is an international rugby union competition for countries and territories from Oceania with national teams in the developmental band. It is administered by Oceania Rugby (formerly known as FORU). The tournament has been played under various formats depending on the number and strength of the teams entered. The first competition was held in 1996-97 as part of the qualification process for the 1999 Rugby World Cup. The competition was officially re-launched as the FORU Oceania Cup for the 2007 season. From 2009 onward, it has been held bi-annually and it has been played under

title: FIBA Oceania Championship

text: was no Oceania Basketball Tournament in 2005 because the Mini Games included basketball that year in Palau. FIBA Oceania Championship FIBA Oceania Championship is the name commonly used to refer to the Oceania basketball championships that take every two years between national teams of the continent. Through the 2015 edition, the Oceania Championships are also a qualifying tournament for the Basketball World Cups and Olympic Games. When only Australia and New Zealand compete, the tournament is usually a best-of-three playoff; if other teams compete, a round-robin and a knockout stage is employed. In 2009, the Oceania Basketball Federation changed this

title: Australian rules football in Oceania

text: Australian rules football in Oceania Australian rules football in Oceania is the sport of Australian rules football as it is watched and played in the Oceanian continent. Today the sport is most popular in Nauru where it is the national sport, and Australia, where the AFL is the most attended football code. There are currently organised open age leagues in seven nations (including Australia) around the Pacific, while in at least four other nations there have been participation in the sport. The sport is broadcast on television in most of these countries, particularly the AFL Grand Final, however outside of

title: 1999 Oceania Club Championship

text: third place playoff was cancelled due to injuries following in particular the Central United vs Tafea match. South Melbourne are the 1999 Oceania Club Champions and qualify for the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship. 1999 Oceania Club Championship The 1999 Oceania Club Championships was held in September 1999. The tournament was designed to decide the Oceania Football Confederation's entrant into the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship. The competition was held in Fiji (Nadi and Lautoka). A total of 9 teams from 9 OFC member associations entered the competition. The nine participants were placed in three groups, where each team played

title: Oceania Continent Handball Federation

text: Oceania Continent Handball Federation The Oceania Continent Handball Federation (OCHF) is the governing body for the Olympic sport of Handball in Oceania. It is affiliated to the International Handball Federation (IHF). The OCHF is administered by an executive committee elected annually by its members. The OCHF members are the local governing Handball federations in countries within the Oceania region that are also members of the IHF. The first Oceania Handball Federation (OHF) was founded on 9 July 1993, by Mr. Alexander Dimitric in Sydney, Australia. In 1994, the first ever Oceania Senior Men's and Women's Championships were held in the

title: Oceania Cruises

text: Oceania Cruises Oceania Cruises is a Miami, Florida, United States-based shipping company that operates six premium cruise ships on worldwide itineraries. The sixth ship, formerly "Ocean Princess" and renamed "Sirena", joined the fleet in 2016. Since September 2014, Oceania Cruises has been owned by Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, LTD. which also owns Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) and Regent Seven Seas Cruises. While it also offers cruises as short as ten days, the norm is 10- to 14-days and the line is also known for its long cruises lasting up to 195 days. The line's President and CEO is Bob Binder;

title: Oceania Cruises

text: and Fincantieri are close to making a deal on two additional ships for the "Oceania" Class. The order for these additional ships never came to pass. On September 2, 2014, Norwegian Cruise Line purchased Prestige Cruise Holdings, the parent company of "Oceania Cruises" and Regent Seven Seas Cruises, for $3.025 billion. On November 25, 2014, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd announced a definitive agreement with Princess Cruises to purchase the "Ocean Princess" for Oceania Cruises, upon delivery in March 2016, the ship underwent a 35-day, $40 million refurbishment in Marseille, France to become the "Sirena". In August 2018, Oceania Cruises

title: Near Oceania

text: Oceania cuts right across the old category of Melanesia. The old categories have been in use since they were proposed by French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville in the mid- 19th century. Though the push of academia has been to replace the categories with Green's terms since the early 1990s, the old categories have remained in popular culture and general usage. Near Oceania Near Oceania or Near Melanesia is the part of Oceania settled 35,000 years ago, comprising western Island Melanesia: the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands archipelago. Compare Remote Oceania. The great nineteenth-century naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace explored Nusantara,

title: Moment map

text: symplectic structure on formula_69 such that inclusion map formula_70 is a momentum map. 2. Let formula_45 act on a symplectic manifold formula_72 with formula_73 a momentum map for the action, and formula_74 be a Lie group homomorphism, inducing an action of formula_75 on formula_43. Then the action of formula_75 on formula_43 is also Hamiltonian, with momentum map given by formula_79, where formula_80 is the dual map to formula_81 (formula_82 denotes the identity element of formula_75). A case of special interest is when formula_75 is a Lie subgroup of formula_45 and formula_86 is the inclusion map. 3. Let formula_87 be a

title: Sport in Oceania

text: Patty Mills. New Zealand has also helped to create some NBA players as well, such as Kirk Penney, Steven Adams, and Sean Marks. Australian rules football is the national sport in Nauru and is the most popular football code in Australia in terms of attendance. It has a large following in Papua New Guinea, where it is the second most popular sport after Rugby League. Sport in Oceania The most popular sport in Oceania varies from country to country. The most popular sport in Australia is cricket, the most popular sport among Australian women is netball, while Australian rules football

title: 2017 UCI Oceania Tour

text: 2017 UCI Oceania Tour The 2017 UCI Oceania Tour is the 13th season of the UCI Oceania Tour. The season began on 22 January 2017 with the New Zealand Cycle Classic and finished on 4 March 2017 with the Continental Championships. The points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Oceania Tour cycling jersey. Sean Lake from Australia is the defending 2016 UCI Oceania Tour champion. Throughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day

title: 2015 Oceania Athletics Championships

text: ""either have their normal place of residence (defined as being a place where an athlete is resident and/or educated) in an "athletically remote area" of Australia (defined as a being a place more than 300 km from any centre at which track and field competition is held on a regular basis i.e. basically weekly or fortnightly during the track season) or "Northern Australia" (defined as comprising the Northern Territory and any parts of Western Australia and North Queensland, north of 26th parallel south latitude)"". 2015 Oceania Athletics Championships The 2015 Oceania Athletics Championships were held at Barlow Park in Cairns,

title: Australia on the Map

text: the Friends Lounge, National Library of Australia 3 October 2002." Canberra: National Initiative Working Group, 2002 Reynders, P. (trans.) and Gerritsen, R. (ed.) "A Translation of the Charter of the Dutch East Indies Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC): Granted by the State General of the United Netherlands, 20 March 1602." Canberra: Australia on the Map Division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society, 2009. Australia on the Map Australia on the Map is the history and heritage division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society. It seeks to enhance Australians’ knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the nation’s early history, beginning in 1606 with

title: Geographers' A-Z Map Company

text: UK transport network. The extensive geographic index from paper publications is available digitally and includes street names, hospitals, government buildings, points of interest etc. Geographers' A-Z Map Company produces a number of smartphone apps that are available on most devices. Apps include: Cabbies Mate, A-Z London Tourist Map, London Super Scale Street map, Greater London map, Glasgow Premier Map Geographers' A-Z Map Company Geographers' A-Z Map Company Ltd. is the largest independent map publisher in the United Kingdom providing cartographic services, digital data products and paper mapping publications (including Street Atlases, Visitors Guides, Great Britain Road Atlases and The Adventure

title: 2018 Oceania Badminton Championships

text: The seeding, which is based on BWF world rankings, for both the men's and women's competition is the same: ---- ---- 2018 Oceania Badminton Championships The XIII 2018 Oceania Badminton Championships is the continental badminton championships in Oceania sanctioned by the Badminton Oceania, and Badminton World Federation. This championship is organized by Badminton New Zealand, and will be the 13th edition of the Oceania Badminton Championships. It is being held in Hamilton, New Zealand from 6 to 11 February 2018. The team event will start in 6 February, and will be the qualification stage for the 2018 Thomas & Uber

title: FIBA Oceania Championship

text: FIBA Oceania Championship FIBA Oceania Championship is the name commonly used to refer to the Oceania basketball championships that take every two years between national teams of the continent. Through the 2015 edition, the Oceania Championships are also a qualifying tournament for the Basketball World Cups and Olympic Games. When only Australia and New Zealand compete, the tournament is usually a best-of-three playoff; if other teams compete, a round-robin and a knockout stage is employed. In 2009, the Oceania Basketball Federation changed this format to a two-game, home-and-away playoff between the two countries, with aggregate score as the tiebreaker should

title: IWRF Asia-Oceania Championship

text: since 2009 part of the IWRF Americas Championship. <nowiki>*</nowiki> = Oceania Championship <nowiki>*</nowiki> = Oceania Championship IWRF Asia-Oceania Championship The IWRF Asia-Oceania Championship or IWRF Asia-Oceania Zone Championship is the name commonly used to refer to the Asian-Oceanian wheelchair rugby championships that take place every two years between national teams of the continents. The Asia-Oceania Championship is also a qualifying tournament for the IWRF World Championships and the Paralympic Games. Before 2009 the tournament was known as the Oceania Championship. The first Oceania Championship was held in 2001. Due to the lack of another teams in Africa, the South Africa

title: Oceania Chess Championship

text: end of the tournament, with a score of 2/2. In 2015, untitled player Brodie McClymont beat IM Max Illingworth in the last round to catch him for 1st= with scores of 7.5/9, which means an automatic IM title. Illingworth beat McClymont 1.5–0.5 in the rapid chess playoff match for Zonal Champion. Oceania Chess Championship Leading chess players from the FIDE Oceania Zone 3.6 are allowed to play in the Oceania Chess Championships. The tournament is conducted by the FIDE Oceania Zone President and Oceania Chess Confederation under the auspices of the world chess federation, FIDE. Before January 2012, the Oceania

title: Map coloring

text: Map coloring Map coloring is the act of assigning different colors to different features on a map. There are two very different uses of this term. The first is in cartography, choosing the colors to be used when producing a map. The second is in mathematics, where the problem is to determine the minimum number of colors needed to color a map so that no two adjacent features have the same color. Color is a very useful attribute to depict different features on a map. Typical uses of color include displaying different political divisions, different elevations, or different kinds of

title: Australia on the Map

text: Map: 1606–2006 came to the realisation that there were significant limitations to Australian’s knowledge of their early history. It was recognised that there needed to be ongoing education and awareness raising of the Australian community to overcome this limitation. At the same time the Australasian Hydrographic Society saw a need for greater awareness of hydrographic history and heritage among its members and stakeholders. Consequently, they invited those involved in Australia on the Map: 1606–2006 to form a new history and heritage ‘region’, to be known as Australia on the Map Division. In April 2007 Australia on the Map: 1606–2006 was

title: Oceania

text: Campbell Islands, belonging to New Zealand. Oceania has a diverse mix of economies from the highly developed and globally competitive financial markets of Australia and New Zealand, which rank high in quality of life and human development index, to the much less developed economies that belong to countries such as of Kiribati and Tuvalu, while also including medium-sized economies of Pacific islands such as Palau, Fiji and Tonga. The largest and most populous country in Oceania is Australia, with Sydney being the largest city of both Oceania and Australia. The first settlers of Australia, New Guinea, and the large islands

title: Oceania

text: settled by two major waves of migration. The first migration took place approximately 40 thousand years ago, and these migrants, Papuans, colonised much of Near Oceania. Approximately 3.5 thousand years ago, a second expansion of Austronesian speakers arrived in Near Oceania, and the descendants of these people spread to the far corners of the Pacific, colonising Remote Oceania.<ref name="doi10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.03.014"></ref> Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) studies quantify the magnitude of the Austronesian expansion and demonstrate the homogenising effect of this expansion. With regards to Papuan influence, autochthonous haplogroups support the hypothesis of a long history in Near Oceania, with some lineages suggesting a

title: Oceania (song)

text: Oceania (song) "Oceania" is a song recorded by Icelandic singer Björk for her sixth studio album "Medúlla". It was written and produced by Björk, with additional writing by Sjón and production by Mark Bell. The song was written by the singer specially for the 2004 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony, after a request by the International Olympic Committee. "Oceania" was released as a promotional single on 13 August 2004, by One Little Indian Records. The song was written at the ocean's point of view, from which the singer believes all life emerged, and details the human's evolution, whilst accompanied by a

text: at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Monash University. to promote graduate engineering student mobility within Asia and Oceania universities similar to the ERASMUS+ program offered by EU universities that is funded by the European commission. AOTULE was subsequently founded in 2007 at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, by holding its inaugural meeting where participating Engineering Deans signed a memorandum of understanding. Each Fall since 2007, an AOTULE member has organized and hosted the annual AOTULE student conference, administration staff and Dean's meeting as noted below. The annual Deans', administrative staff meeting and student conference is held annually in October or

title: 2016 UCI Oceania Tour

text: 2016 UCI Oceania Tour The 2016 UCI Oceania Tour was the twelfth season of the UCI Oceania Tour. The season began on 20 January 2016 with the New Zealand Cycle Classic and finished on 5 March 2016 with the Continental Championships. The points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Oceania Tour cycling jersey. Taylor Gunman from New Zealand is the defending 2015 UCI Oceania Tour champion. Throughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and

title: 2015 UCI Oceania Tour

text: 2015 UCI Oceania Tour The 2015 UCI Oceania Tour was the eleventh season of the UCI Oceania Tour. The season began on 28 January 2015 with the New Zealand Cycle Classic and finished on 28 February 2015 with The REV Classic. The points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Oceania Tour cycling jersey. Robert Power from Australia is the defending 2014 UCI Oceania Tour champion. Throughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day

title: A Map of Middle-earth

text: of antagonists from the novel, including the nine Black Riders, Gollum, Shelob, and various Orcs. A Map of Middle-earth A Map of Middle-earth is the name of two colour posters by different artists, published in the late 1960s and early 1970s by the American and British publishers of J. R. R. Tolkien's book "The Lord of the Rings". Both posters were based on cartography by J. R. R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien to depict the fictional region of Middle-earth. None of these maps cover the whole continent of Middle-earth; instead they only portray the north-western part of the continent, where

title: A Map of Middle-earth

text: A Map of Middle-earth A Map of Middle-earth is the name of two colour posters by different artists, published in the late 1960s and early 1970s by the American and British publishers of J. R. R. Tolkien's book "The Lord of the Rings". Both posters were based on cartography by J. R. R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien to depict the fictional region of Middle-earth. None of these maps cover the whole continent of Middle-earth; instead they only portray the north-western part of the continent, where the story of "The Lord of the Rings" takes place. The earlier poster, signed "BRem"

title: Oceania Chess Championship

text: and Chess World Cup qualifier. In these years, the title of International Master (IM) is awarded to the winner(s) of the Oceania Zone Championship event, as per the FIDE title regulations. The first Oceania Chess Championship was organised by the inaugural Oceania Zone President, Graeme Gardiner, on the Gold Coast, Australia in 1999. Vladimir Feldman of Australia won the event, undefeated, with a score of 7/9. In May 2000, an additional Oceania Zonal Chess Championship was held to coincide with changes in the schedule of the FIDE World Chess Championship cycle. Only an open event was held that year, without

title: 2009 flu pandemic in Oceania

text: via Santo-Pekoa International Airport and Bauerfield International Airport are now being screened using body heat detection before being allowed to exit the airport's gates. 1st case confirm in Vanuatu. 2009 flu pandemic in Oceania The 2009 flu pandemic in Oceania, part of an epidemic in 2009 of a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1 causing what has been commonly called swine flu, has (as of 27 June 2009) afflicted at over 22,000 people in Oceania, with 56 confirmed deaths. Almost all of the cases in Oceania have been in Australia, where the majority of cases have resulted from

title: Australia on the Map

text: First Map of Australia, held at the National Library of Australia on 19 June 2011. This event involved close collaboration between the Australia on the Map Division, the National Library of Australia and the French Embassy and was addressed by the most eminent French scholars in Australia. Australia on the Map has already been engaged in preparations for commemorations in coming years. Plans were made to mark the 300th anniversary in 2012 of the sinking of the "Zuytdorp" on the coast of Western Australia in 1712. Australia on the Map has also been promoting the concept of “Naming Australia/Nommer l’Australie”

title: Oceania Cruises

text: he is vice-chairman and also a co-founder of the brand. Oceania Cruises was founded in 2002 by luxury cruise industry veterans Frank Del Rio, Bob Binder, and Joe Watters. The founding management team also included industry veterans Robin Lindsay, James Rodriguez, Jeff Drew, and Howard Sherman. The company chartered the former Renaissance Cruises ship "R Two" from Cruiseinvest and renamed her "Insignia" in October 2002. In April 2003 the "Insignia" was chartered to the French travel agency TRM for three months, during which Oceania Cruises operated no vessels. On 15 June 2003 Oceania Cruises re-commenced service with two ships: the

title: Oceania

text: editions of the Commonwealth Games (Sydney 1938, Perth 1962, Brisbane 1982, Melbourne 2006, Gold Coast 2018). Meanwhile, New Zealand has hosted the Commonwealth Games three times: Auckland 1950, Christchurch 1974 and Auckland 1990. The Pacific Games (formerly known as the South Pacific Games) is a multi-sport event, much like the Olympics on a much smaller scale, with participation exclusively from countries around the Pacific. It is held every four years and began in 1963. Australia and New Zealand competed in the games for the first time in 2015. Oceania Oceania (, , ) is a geographic region comprising Australasia, Melanesia,

title: Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?

text: Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? is an American animated television series based on the series of computer games. The show was produced by DIC Entertainment/Program Exchange and originally aired Saturday mornings on FOX during the Fox Kids block. Its episodes have subsequently been repeated on the Fox Family, PAX and the short-lived girlzChannel. Reruns of the series currently air on The Worship Network and Qubo. The series won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program in 1995 and in the same year was spun off into a Where in the World-styled

title: Oceania Women's Sevens Championship

text: November 11-12, ANZ National Stadium, Suva, Fiji. November 10-11, Suva, Fiji. November 9-10 at ANZ National Stadium, Suva, Fiji. Pool A Pool B Plate semifinals Cup semifinals 7th place final 5th place final 3rd place final Final Oceania Women's Sevens Championship The Oceania Women's Sevens is the regional championship for women's international rugby sevens in Oceania. The tournament is held over two days, typically on a weekend. It is sanctioned and sponsored by Oceania Rugby, which is the rugby union governing body for the region. Rugby sevens — also known as 7-a-side, or 7s — is a short form of

title: Near Oceania

text: Near Oceania Near Oceania or Near Melanesia is the part of Oceania settled 35,000 years ago, comprising western Island Melanesia: the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands archipelago. Compare Remote Oceania. The great nineteenth-century naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace explored Nusantara, drawing attention to fundamental biological differences between the Australia-New Guinea region and Southeast Asia. The boundary between the Asian and Australian faunal regions consists of a zone of smaller islands bearing the name of Wallacea, in honor of the co-discoverer of the theory of natural selection. Wallace speculated that the key to understanding these differences would lie in "now-submerged lands,

title: 2013 UCI Oceania Tour

text: 2013 UCI Oceania Tour The 2013 UCI Oceania Tour was the ninth season of the UCI Oceania Tour. The season began on 23 January 2013 with the New Zealand Cycle Classic and ended on 17 March 2013 with the Oceania Cycling Championships. The points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Oceania Tour cycling jersey. Paul Odlin from New Zealand was the defending 2011–12 UCI Oceania Tour champion. Damien Howson from Australia was crowned as the 2013 UCI Oceania Tour champion. Throughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage

title: 2011 UCI Oceania Tour

text: 2011 UCI Oceania Tour The 2011 UCI Oceania Tour was the seventh season of the UCI Oceania Tour. The season began on 26 January 2011 with the Tour of Wellington and ended on 20 March 2011 with the Oceania Cycling Championships. The points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Oceania Tour cycling jersey. Michael Matthews of Australia was the defending champion of the 2009–10 UCI Oceania Tour. Richard Lang of Australia was crowned as the 2011 UCI Oceania Tour champion. Throughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage

title: Augmented map

text: augmented map interface is provided in a library PAM. Augmented map In computer science, the augmented map is an abstract data type (ADT) based on ordered maps, which associates each ordered map an augmented value. For an ordered map formula_1 with key type formula_2, comparison function formula_3 on formula_2 and value type formula_5, the augmented value is defined based on two functions: a "base" function formula_6 and a "combine" function formula_7, where formula_8 is the type of the augmented value. The base function formula_9converts a single entry in formula_1 to an augmented value, and the combine function formula_11 combines multiple

title: Oceania Women's Sevens Championship

text: Oceania Women's Sevens Championship The Oceania Women's Sevens is the regional championship for women's international rugby sevens in Oceania. The tournament is held over two days, typically on a weekend. It is sanctioned and sponsored by Oceania Rugby, which is the rugby union governing body for the region. Rugby sevens — also known as 7-a-side, or 7s — is a short form of the sport of rugby union that was first played in 1883. The first (men's) internationals took place in 1973. As women's rugby union developed in the 1960s and 1970s the format became very popular as it allowed

title: Moment map

text: so that formula_13 for some function formula_14. Suppose also that the map formula_15 sending formula_16 is a Lie algebra homomorphism. Then a momentum map for the "G"-action on ("M", ω) is a map formula_17 such that for all ξ in formula_1. Here formula_20 is the function from "M" to R defined by formula_21. The momentum map is uniquely defined up to an additive constant of integration. A momentum map is often also required to be "G"-equivariant, where "G" acts on formula_2 via the coadjoint action. If the group is compact or semisimple, then the constant of integration can always be

title: Oceania

text: arrival of European settlers in subsequent centuries resulted in a significant alteration in the social and political landscape of Oceania. In more contemporary times there has been increasing discussion on national flags and a desire by some Oceanians to display their distinguishable and individualistic identity. The rock art of Australian Aborigines is the longest continuously practiced artistic tradition in the world. Puncak Jaya in Papua is often considered the highest peak in Oceania. Most Oceanian countries have a parliamentary representative democratic multi-party system, with tourism being a large source of income for the Pacific Islands nations. The geographer Conrad Malte-Brun

title: IWRF Asia-Oceania Championship

text: IWRF Asia-Oceania Championship The IWRF Asia-Oceania Championship or IWRF Asia-Oceania Zone Championship is the name commonly used to refer to the Asian-Oceanian wheelchair rugby championships that take place every two years between national teams of the continents. The Asia-Oceania Championship is also a qualifying tournament for the IWRF World Championships and the Paralympic Games. Before 2009 the tournament was known as the Oceania Championship. The first Oceania Championship was held in 2001. Due to the lack of another teams in Africa, the South Africa is also competing in this championship. Canada was part of the tournament in 2007, but is

title: Netball in Oceania

text: Netball in Oceania Netball in Oceania is generally regarded as a woman's sport. Women's sports in Oceania have traditionally had a very low profile. Despite this, netball is popular in Oceania, with its growth partly because of New Zealand encouraging the game and providing money for the training of coaches, umpires and other netball development needs. In New Zealand and in neighbouring Australia, netball is one of the most popular sports played by women. Netball is one of the sports at the Pacific Games, a multi-sport event, with participation from countries around the South Pacific, that is held every four

title: 2017 UCI Oceania Tour

text: events. The quality and complexity of a race also determines how many points are awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points are awarded. The UCI ratings from highest to lowest are as follows: 2017 UCI Oceania Tour The 2017 UCI Oceania Tour is the 13th season of the UCI Oceania Tour. The season began on 22 January 2017 with the New Zealand Cycle Classic and finished on 4 March 2017 with the Continental Championships. The points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Oceania Tour cycling

title: 2001 Oceania Club Championship

text: 2001 Oceania Club Championship The 2001 Oceania Club Championships was held in January 2001. The tournament was designed to decide the Oceania Football Confederation's entrant into the 2001 FIFA Club World Championship; however that Club World Championship tournament was cancelled by FIFA. The competition was held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, with all matches held at the Lloyd Robson Stadium. The tournament was won by Australian club Wollongong Wolves. A total of 11 teams from 11 OFC member associations entered the competition. The eleven participants were placed in two groups, where each team played the other teams once. The

title: 1999 Oceania Club Championship

text: 1999 Oceania Club Championship The 1999 Oceania Club Championships was held in September 1999. The tournament was designed to decide the Oceania Football Confederation's entrant into the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship. The competition was held in Fiji (Nadi and Lautoka). A total of 9 teams from 9 OFC member associations entered the competition. The nine participants were placed in three groups, where each team played the other teams once. The group winners and best second place team progressed to the semi-finals. The top team from each groups progressed to the semifinals, along with the best second place team. The

title: Australia on the Map

text: on the Map Division website is an important educational tool for the organisation. It features what is known as the “Landings List”, which provides a brief entry on every episode of contact and other significant cartographic developments from 1606 to 1814. It also carries the only online translation of the original 1602 VOC Charter of the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC - Dutch East India Company), developed as a result research project. The Australia on the Map Division had significant input into the process of the development of a National Education Curriculum. Through its Publicity and Promotion activities the Australia on

title: L.A. Without a Map

text: L.A. Without a Map L.A. Without a Map is a 1998 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mika Kaurismäki and written by Mika Kaurismäki and Richard Rayner, based on his novel. The film stars David Tennant, Vinessa Shaw, Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo, Joe Dallesandro, and Johnny Depp. It is a French, British and Finnish production. It is also known under the titles "Los Angeles Without a Map" and "I Love L.A." (France). While visiting a Northern English city, Barbara (Vinessa Shaw), an aspiring Hollywood actress, has a fling with the town undertaker Richard (David Tennant), who also writes obituaries for the

title: 2014 UCI Oceania Tour

text: 2014 UCI Oceania Tour The 2014 UCI Oceania Tour was the tenth season of the UCI Oceania Tour. The season began on 29 January 2014 with the New Zealand Cycle Classic and ended on 22 February 2014 with the Oceania Cycling Championships. The points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Oceania Tour cycling jersey. Damien Howson from Australia was the defending 2013 UCI Oceania Tour champion. Throughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and

title: Borgia map

text: Borgia map Mainly a decoration piece, the Borgia map is a world map made sometime in the early 15th century, and engraved on a metal plate. Its "workmanship and written explanations make it one of the most precious pieces of the history of cartography". The year when the Borgia map was created is unknown. One source argues that the map must date from sometime before 1453. Another source suggests the map was made c.1450. In the late 18th century the artifact found its way into an antique shop, from where it became part of the collection of Cardinal Borgia. The

title: Map regression

text: undertaken. Map regression is performed either by comparing individual features between maps, or by re-projecting an entire map so as to fit another onto which it can then be superimposed. The process can include resolving any differences in map scale, projection, datum, or format; and the interpretation of each map in its meaning and accuracy. Similarities between maps, such as topography or built structures, are identified to determine where distinct features from one map are plotted on another. One manual technique is to copy features from earlier maps onto transparent overlays placed on the most recent map which provides the

title: Oceania Swimming Association

text: Oceania Swimming Association The Oceania Swimming Association is the continental governing body recognised by FINA, for the national governing bodies of swimming, open water swimming, diving, water polo, synchronised swimming and masters swimming in Oceania. The body was established in January 1991 during the 1991 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Australia. At the OSA Congress held in June 2008, Dennis Miller of Fiji was elected President of the organization. The body will next meet during the 2009 World Championships in Rome, Italy. The OSA also tracks and maintains the Oceania Records. There are currently 14 member federations of the Oceania

title: Oceania Swimming Association

title: Kaplan–Yorke map

text: Kaplan–Yorke map The Kaplan–Yorke map is a discrete-time dynamical system. It is an example of a dynamical system that exhibits chaotic behavior. The Kaplan–Yorke map takes a point ("x, y ") in the plane and maps it to a new point given by where "mod" is the modulo operator with real arguments. The map depends on only the one constant α. Due to roundoff error, successive applications of the modulo operator will yield zero after some ten or twenty iterations when implemented as a floating point operation on a computer. It is better to implement the following equivalent algorithm: where

title: Oceania (journal)

text: Oceania (journal) Oceania is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1930. It covers social and cultural anthropology of the peoples of Oceania, including Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, and Southeast Asia. The journal publishes research papers as well as review articles, correspondence, and shorter comments. Occasionally, a special issue is devoted to a single topic, comprising thematically connected collections of papers prepared by a guest editor. The journal is published by Wiley-Blackwell and the editors-in-chief are Jadran Mimica (University of Sydney) and Nancy Williams (University of Queensland). Past editors include Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Adolphus Peter Elkin and Raymond Firth.

title: Oceania (journal)

title: Oceania

text: length film, spurred a boom in Australian cinema during the silent film era. The Australian Museum in Sydney and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne are the oldest and largest museums in Oceania. The city's New Year's Eve celebrations are the largest in Oceania. Australia is also known for its cafe and coffee culture in urban centres. Australia and New Zealand were responsible for the flat white coffee. Most Indigenous Australian tribal groups subsisted on a simple hunter-gatherer diet of native fauna and flora, otherwise called bush tucker. The first settlers introduced British food to the continent, much of

title: Multilinear map

text: Multilinear map In linear algebra, a multilinear map is a function of several variables that is linear separately in each variable. More precisely, a multilinear map is a function where formula_2 and formula_3 are vector spaces (or modules over a commutative ring), with the following property: for each formula_4, if all of the variables but formula_5 are held constant, then formula_6 is a linear function of formula_5. A multilinear map of one variable is a linear map, and of two variables is a bilinear map. More generally, a multilinear map of "k" variables is called a "k"-linear map. If the

title: Augmented map

text: Augmented map In computer science, the augmented map is an abstract data type (ADT) based on ordered maps, which associates each ordered map an augmented value. For an ordered map formula_1 with key type formula_2, comparison function formula_3 on formula_2 and value type formula_5, the augmented value is defined based on two functions: a "base" function formula_6 and a "combine" function formula_7, where formula_8 is the type of the augmented value. The base function formula_9converts a single entry in formula_1 to an augmented value, and the combine function formula_11 combines multiple augmented values. The combine function formula_11 is required to

title: Islam in Oceania

text: Muslim migrants came on a ship bringing indentured labourers to Fiji in 1879. Muslims consisted of 22% of the boarders on "Leonidas", which was the first such ship. Islam in Oceania Islam in Oceania refers to Islam and Muslims in Oceania. By current estimates, there are 620,156 total Muslims in Oceania: 476,600 in Australia, 48,151 in New Zealand, 52,520 in Fiji, 6,352 in New Caledonia, 2,200 in Papua New Guinea, 360 in Solomon Islands, 221 in Vanuatu, 110 in Tonga and tiny numbers in Kiribati and Samoa. According to a 2007 article in "Pacific Magazine", entitled 'Green Moon Rising', Islam

title: 2014 UCI Oceania Tour

text: one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determines how many points are awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points are awarded. The UCI ratings from highest to lowest are as follows: 2014 UCI Oceania Tour The 2014 UCI Oceania Tour was the tenth season of the UCI Oceania Tour. The season began on 29 January 2014 with the New Zealand Cycle Classic and ended on 22 February 2014 with the Oceania Cycling Championships. The points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Oceania

title: Oceania (The Smashing Pumpkins album)

text: Oceania (The Smashing Pumpkins album) Oceania is the eighth studio album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released on June 19, 2012 through EMI, Reprise Records and Martha's Music. Produced by Billy Corgan and Bjorn Thorsrud, the album is part of the band's abandoned 44-song project album, "Teargarden by Kaleidyscope". As of September 2012, "Oceania" has sold over 102,000 copies in the US. A live performance of the album, "", was released on September 24, 2013. On April 26, 2011, in a video on the band's Facebook fan page, frontman Billy Corgan announced plans to release "Oceania" as

title: Google Map Maker

text: Google Map Maker Google Map Maker is a discontinued mapping and map editing service launched by Google in June 2008. In geographies where it is hard to find providers of good map data, user contributions could be used to increase map quality. Changes to Google Map Maker were intended to appear on Google Maps only after sufficient review by Google moderators. Google Map Maker was used at Google Mapathon events held annually. In November 2016, it was announced that Google Map Maker would be retired and merged with Google Maps itself; it was officially shut down on March 31, 2017.

title: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? 3 - New Carmen Adventure

text: digital map of Atlantis, it turns out that Carmen Sandiego had been intercepting ACME communications and planned this entire mission. Carmen Sandiego steals the map and heads to South America. The gameplay consists of point and click elements. To progress the player must choose dialogue options during conversations, solve puzzles, make use of the digital handheld ACME computer and select a travel destination on the world map until a case is solved. When a case is solved the player gains a higher ACME rank. A review of Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? 3 at PALGN was negative: "It's

title: Transpose of a linear map

text: Transpose of a linear map In linear algebra, the transpose of a linear map between two vector spaces, defined over the same field, is an induced map between the dual spaces of the two vector spaces. The transpose of a linear map is often used to study the original linear map. This concept is generalised by adjoint functors. Let V and W be vector spaces over the same field. If is a linear map, then the "transpose" (or "dual", or "adjoint"), is defined to be The resulting functional "f"("φ") is called the "pullback" of "φ" along "f". The following identity,

title: Beatus map

text: Jesus of Nazareth, the sea of Tiberiades, where a good part of the apostles worked as fishermen, and Monte Tabor, the place where the Transfiguration occurred. Africa is obviously from the Nile river with a lake as its source. The Maghreb is named "Libia" and Africa is surrounded by a sea coloured red. Beatus map The Beatus Map or Beatine Map is one of the most significant cartographic works of the European Early Middle Ages: It was originally drawn by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, based on the accounts given by Saint Isidore of Seville, Ptolemy and the Holy