Australasia and Oceania (Cromwell the Great)

Colonies and territories claimed in Australia and Oceania

 * Spanish East Indies (Spanish Empire colony)
 * Dutch New Holland -> West-Australië (Dutch colony)
 * Van Diemen's Land (former Dutch colony) -> Tasmania (British colony)
 * Dutch Carpentaria
 * Dutch Arnhemland
 * New South Wales (British colony)
 * Cookland (British colony)
 * Flag of Modern New Zealand (King of America).svg Aotearoa (Joint British-French-Dutch)
 * Cygnes (French colony)
 * Nouvelle Brabant (former Dutch colony, seized by France)
 * Kanaka Maoli flag.svg Kingdom of Hawaii (British protectorate)
 * Flag of the United Kingdom of Fiji 1871-1874.svg Kingdom of Fiji (British protectorate)
 * New Caledonia or Kanaky (disputed by France and Britain, later assigned to France)
 * French Colony of Oceania
 * Kingdom of Huahina (French protectorate) former polity
 * Kingdom of Bora-Bora (French protectorate) former polity
 * Kingdom of Raiatea (French protectorate) former polity
 * Kingdom of Huahine (French protectorate) former polity
 * Samoa (Dutch)

=Notable territories in Australasia and Oceania=

Aotearoa
"He kai kei aku ringa (Maori proverb)" Aotearoa is the Māori name given to to the island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses —the North Island (or Te Ika-a-Māui), and the South Island (or Te Waipounamu).

Aotearoa is situated some 1,500 kilometres east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometres south of the Pacific island areas of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans and the last land of Oceania and Australasia to have being explored and its population to establish contact with Europeans.

Also called New Zealand/Nouvelle-Zélande/Nieuw-Zeeland by the British, French and Dutch. In treaties Aotearoa, or more exactly the federation of Maori Iwi (tribes) and people, is referred as the United Tribes of New Zealand.

The United Tribes of New Zealand was formed as an intermediary with the Europeans (Pākehā). Its main purpose is to contract treaties with the Europeans, arbitrate major between the tribes and chiefs and secure land rights of the Maori. Under the treaties the British, French and Dutch are allowed to trade and built settlements and ports. Major triumphs for Europeans were the abolition of slavery and its trade and the protection of missionaries in all of Aotearoa.

During the European Revolutionary Wars Aotearoa was far from the main and large military and naval clashes of Britain, France and the Dutch Republic in Australia. At most rival fleets fought in front of the coasts of Aotearoa and nominally claimed either one of the two major islands. However the natives began to acquire large quantities of muskets and munition.

The Musket Wars, hunger and diseases dramatically decrease the native population. As war escalated some tribal chiefs meet and agreed to establish a major confederation, the future monarchy and United Tribes of New Zealand, in order to settle disputes and deal with the Europeans.

The advancement of steam powered ships left Aotearoa out of the regular sea lanes and of little interest for trade heading most directly to Australia. only whaling and shipping fleets stopped by.

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Kingdom of Hawaii
The Kingdom of Hawaiʻi originated with the unification of the independent islands of Hawaiʻi, Oʻahu, Maui, Molokaʻi, and Lānaʻi under one government. In the early 1810s the whole Hawaiian archipelago became unified when Kauaʻi and Niʻihau joined the kingdom voluntarily and without bloodshed or war. Two major dynastic families ruled the kingdom: the House of Kamehameha and the House of Kalākaua.

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