australasia

There are fourteen countries in Oceania: Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Micronesia, Vanuatu, Samoa, Kiribati, Tonga, Marshall Islands, Palau, Nauru, and Tuvalu. There are nine dependencies or territories: French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Guam, Northern Mariana...

Welcome to the thread, the goal here is to try and outline the real history of pre colonial Australia and to discuss potential avenues for alternative history and the challenges there-in. Before we begin in earnest I would like to note I have read the Lands of Red & gold and enjoyed it, but that...

In the book Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian state is named Oceania (presumably because it's a transatlantic empire). Sometime times when I hear Oceania however, I tend to think of the actual continent. Starting in 1900, how can we get Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Polynesian...

Let's say that the revolutions of 1848 were so severe that they suffocated Austria. What would Europe be like? Hungary becomes independent?

In the early 1990’s the Federation International Automobile’s (FIA) global touring car formula Group A was coming to an end, with spiraling costs and the failure of the World Touring Car Championship to last more then one season saw the auto-racing world to look to alternatives. The Australian...

I always wondered this. Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other that I can list are dominions and territories are associated with UK and recognized the British Monarch as their sovereign. However, most of them still have things, like Independence Days, and their own foreign affairs and...

How big can Australia realistically get? The first POD would probably be New Zealand and Fiji joining Australia in 1901. I’m sure it’s possible for Papua New Guinea and East Timor to join. What other Polynesian islands could Australia gain?

To lay down the scenario, Britain has been reduced to having it's Royal Navy destroyed for the most part, and is now a vassal state of Germany. Germany was able to win this conflict by allying with Russia, annexing Austria-Bohemia, etc, and focus its efforts on Western Europe. After one war in...

Suppose there’s no desert in Australia, and is instead mostly fertile grassland. Likely population? Could it be of similar power to the US? Would the natives still be conquered, or would they have a more advanced civilization?

Diggers, Dervishes and Dungaree's - Part 1 - One lucky shell Landings at Beach Z (OTL Anzac Cove) - 25/4/1915 The Initial Landings at Beach Z, Ari Burnu in the tongue of the turks, at 4:30 in the morning were marked by chaos and bloodshed as the first and second waves of six companies...

As it says in the title, why didn't New Guinea develop an advanced civilisation like those in Eurasia and the Americas? It was among the first places on earth to develop agriculture, it's relatively large, it has an OK crop package and it's pretty fertile.