Oceania: interesting facts

Now a popular cruise destination for Australians, cannibal killings persisted here until 1969.

This archipelago, where the Bikini Atoll atom bomb tests took place, filed legal cases against the world's nuclear superpowers.

During the ice age when sea levels were lower, part of this country was attached to Bougainville (in PNG).

This Micronesian nation of 340 islands has the least-populous capital in the world.

The battles of Makin Atoll and Tarawa took place here in 1943.

The most-populous of the small Pacific nations, it is illegal to be topless in public here.

This micro-country of only nine islands and 11,000 people will soon be uninhabitable if sea levels keep rising.

This country is 368,630 times bigger than Nauru. In 2021, a sheep was born here with a fifth leg growing out of its head.

This western Pacific archipelago is comprised of 607 islands stretched across a 1,700 mile east-to-west section of ocean.

The smallest dolphin species (1.4m long) is found here. It is Oceania's southernmost country.

There are still uncontacted tribes in this country, where a Stone Age style existence persists.

Never colonised, this is the world's most obese nation. It was led by the 460 lb Tupuo IV, the heaviest monarch ever.

About 3% of NFL players have this country's ethnicity.