Oceania
a name sometimes given to the fifth division of the globe, comprising all the islands which intervene between the S. E. shores of the continent of Asia and the W. shores of America.
It naturally divides itself into three great sections-the Malay Archipelago, Australasia or Melanesia, and Polynesia.
OCEANUS (-sē'-), in classical mythology, the god of the stream Oceanus, and the offspring of Cœlus and Terra, or Heaven and Earth. He espoused his sister Tethys, and their children were the rivers of the earth, and the 3,000 Oceanides or Nymphs of Ocean.