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New Zealand. From 30 April 2007, DST begins at 02:00 NZST on the last Sunday in September each year, and ends at 03:00 NZDT (or 02:00 NZST as defined in the Time Act 1974) on the first Sunday in April. New Zealand time, including DST, is used by several Antarctic bases that are supplied from New Zealand. This results in the oddity that the ...
When the Republic of Kiribati was founded in 1979, it had three time zones: UTC+12:00 in the Gilbert Islands, UTC−11:00 in the Phoenix Islands and UTC−10:00 in the Line Islands. Gilbert was west of the international dateline and the Phoenix and Line Islands were east of it. This meant that the Gilbert Islands were nearly a full day ahead of ...
Retrieved 1 February 2022. Oceania is a broadly applied term for the thousands of islands in the Pacific Ocean. They range from extremely small, uninhabited islands, to large ones, including Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Oceania is further grouped into three regions, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.
Toggle As standard time (Southern Hemisphere winter) subsection. 2.1 Oceania. 2.1.1 Australasia. 2.2 Antarctica. 3 As daylight saving time (Southern Hemisphere summer)
Below is a list of countries and dependencies in Oceania by area. Australia is the largest country in Oceania while Nauru is the smallest. Country / dependency %
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the geographical region of Oceania. Although it is mostly ocean and spans many tectonic plates, Oceania is occasionally listed as one of the continents . Most of this list follows the boundaries of geopolitical Oceania, which includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
Oceania is commonly divided into four geographic sub-regions, characterized by shared cultural, religious, linguistic, and ethnic traits: Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Most Oceanian countries are multi-party representative parliamentary democracies, and tourism is a large source of income for the Pacific Islands nations.
Time in Palau is given by Palau Time (PWT; UTC+09:00 ). [1] [2] Palau does not have an associated daylight saving time. [3] Palau Time is equivalent to Japan Standard Time, Korean Standard Time, Pyongyang Time ( North Korea ), Eastern Indonesia Standard Time, East-Timorese Standard Time, and Yakutsk Time ( Russia ).