Occania, a name sometimes given to the fifth division of the globe, comprising all the islands which intervene between the south-eastern shores of the continent of Asia and the western shores of America. It naturally divides itself into three great sections—the Malay Archipelago, Australasia or Melanesia, and Polynesia (q.v.).
Occania
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 572
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