Discover Oceania Pacific

A region defined by ocean as much as land — from Australia's continent-sized landmass and New Zealand's dramatic fjords and volcanoes, to Fiji's reefs, French Polynesia's lagoons, and the Solomon Islands' rainforest-covered coastlines.

Oceania Pacific rewards travelers looking for genuine distance from anywhere else — vast stretches of ocean separate each destination, and that isolation has produced some of the world's most distinctive wildlife, indigenous cultures, and landscapes.

Oceania Pacific brings together some of the most geographically distinct destinations on the site under one grouping: Australia, a landmass the size of a continent in its own right; New Zealand, two mountainous islands in the temperate South Pacific; and Fiji, French Polynesia, and the Solomon Islands, three very different slices of the tropical Pacific island world — Melanesia, Polynesia, and Melanesia again, respectively.

The region's human history is as distinctive as its geography. Aboriginal Australians represent the oldest continuous living culture on Earth, with a documented history stretching back over 65,000 years. Māori settled New Zealand around the 13th century after a Polynesian migration that also populated islands across the vast Pacific — a feat of open-ocean navigation using stars, currents, and wave patterns that predates European exploration by centuries. Fiji and the Solomon Islands carry their own deep Melanesian cultural histories, while French Polynesia remains a French overseas collectivity with a distinct Polynesian identity of its own.

For travelers, this translates into genuinely different trips depending on the destination: an Australia or New Zealand itinerary built around cities, road trips, and dramatic natural landscapes looks nothing like a Fiji or French Polynesia trip built around reefs, lagoons, and island resorts, or a Solomon Islands trip built around diving and WWII history.