Texas Colonisation of the lands in the Pacific Ocean The colonisation of Oceania includes: Colonisation of Australia Colonisation of New Zealand Colonisation of the Pacific islands See also Europeans in Oceania Indigenous peoples of Oceania References Colonization, decolonization, and neocolonialismBy regionExploration Americas Africa Asia Oceania Antarctica — World oceans Colonization Americas Africa European colonies Asia Southeast Asia Oceania Antarctica Decolonization Americas Africa Asia Oceania GeneraltopicsExploration Maritime history (European) Age of Discovery Colonization Antiquity — Imperialism Chartered companies Interventionism Colonialism chronology history empires detribalization settler colonialism wars Current: Non-self-governing Dependent Colonial empires in the modern era Overseas, major: British Dutch French German Italian Portuguese Spanish Overseas, minor: American Australian Austro-Hungarian Belgian Couronian (Polish-Lithuanian) Danish New Zealand Norwegian Swedish Mostly contiguous: American Chinese Japanese Ottoman Russian South African Decolonization Wars of national liberation — Predecessors of sovereign states in Europe in South America Independence referendum Sovereign states formation dates Postcolonialism Independence Internal colonialism Nation-building Neocolonialism Postcolonial international relations Related concepts Decolonization of knowledge Terra nullius Plantation Settler Indigenous peoples Uncontacted peoples Christianity and colonialism Decolonization of public space