Islands in the Pacific Ocean

The Islands in the Pacific Ocean, in total land area, is slightly larger than South Africa, slightly smaller than Peru, and four-fifths the size of Alaska; the total land area covers 0.25 percent of the ocean's surface area. The islands of New Guinea, New Zealand, and Hawaii constitute 93 percent of the land area, while the remaining thousands of islands have a total land area of 34,494 square miles, 89,339 square kilometers, and slightly less than the American state of Indiana. New Guinea, shared by the Indonesian province of Papua (formerly Irian Jaya) and the nation of Papua New Guinea, is the second largest island in the world, after Greenland. New Zealand’s South Island and North Island, Oceania’s next largest islands, are the world’s 12th and 14th largest islands, respectively.