Australia and Oceania Vacation and Trip Information

Australia is the only country that has a whole continent to itself. World famous for its natural wonders and wide open spaces (beaches, deserts and "the bush" or "the Outback"), Australia is ironically one of the world's most highly urbanized countries and is well known for the cosmopolitan attractions of its globally significant cities, such as Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart and the Australian capital city Canberra. Australia is also a major tourist destination, and is one of the world's wealthiest countries.

Oceania is a vast, arbitrarily defined expanse of the world where the Pacific Ocean—rather than land borders—connects more than two-dozen island nations, including French Polynesia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Easter Island. It's home to glistening white beaches, coconut palms swaying in the breeze, beautiful coral reefs and rugged volcanic islands rising out of the blue ocean. (It should not be confused in any way with the fictional empire of the same name in George Orwell's novel 1984.)