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Basemap: Natural Earth 4.1.0 land polygons (world-atlas@2.0.2), Public domain (Natural Earth terms of use). Land polygons only. No political boundaries are drawn by the basemap. Case boundaries appear only from approved, sourced geometry records, each labelled with its layer type, dates and provenance. Map policy.

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Cases on the map

21 cases matching Oceania and the Pacific. The map shows the same set.

Cases shown on the atlas, with collection, region and locator description
Case	Collection	Region	Locator
Aboriginal Australian sovereignties	Autonomy and Indigenous self-government	Oceania and the Pacific	Australia
American Samoa political status	Political status and decolonisation	Oceania and the Pacific	American Samoa
Bougainville	Independence movements	Oceania and the Pacific	Bougainville
Chuuk independence proposals	Independence movements	Oceania and the Pacific	Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia
Cook Islands constitutional history	Political status and decolonisation	Oceania and the Pacific	Cook Islands
Espiritu Santo separatist episode	Historical independence	Oceania and the Pacific	Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu
Guåhan / Guam self-determination	Political status and decolonisation	Oceania and the Pacific	Guam
Kanaky / New Caledonia	Independence movements	Oceania and the Pacific	New Caledonia
Mā'ohi / French Polynesian political status	Independence movements	Oceania and the Pacific	French Polynesia (Tahiti)
Māori sovereignty / tino rangatiratanga	Autonomy and Indigenous self-government	Oceania and the Pacific	New Zealand
Niue constitutional history	Political status and decolonisation	Oceania and the Pacific	Niue
Norfolk Island self-government	Autonomy and Indigenous self-government	Oceania and the Pacific	Norfolk Island
Papua New Guinea	Historical independence	Oceania and the Pacific	Papua New Guinea
Pitcairn political status	Political status and decolonisation	Oceania and the Pacific	Pitcairn Islands
Rapa Nui self-determination	Autonomy and Indigenous self-government	Oceania and the Pacific	Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Rotuman self-determination	Historical independence	Oceania and the Pacific	Rotuma
Samoa	Historical independence	Oceania and the Pacific	Samoa
Tanna separatist episodes	Historical independence	Oceania and the Pacific	Tanna, Vanuatu
Tokelau political status	Political status and decolonisation	Oceania and the Pacific	Tokelau
Torres Strait Islander self-government	Autonomy and Indigenous self-government	Oceania and the Pacific	Torres Strait Islands
Vanuatu	Historical independence	Oceania and the Pacific	Vanuatu