Physical map of Oceania

Physical map of Oceania shows the shape of the land with shaded relief and colors for elevation. Rivers and lakes are drawn in blue, and dashed lines show country borders. Download the labeled map or use the version without names as a worksheet.

Physical map of Oceania
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How to read this map

Named features on this map include Great Dividing Range, Western Plateau, Great Artesian Basin, Nullabor Plain, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Murray–Darling basin, Southern Alps/Kā Tiritiri o te Moana, New Guinea Highlands, Kimberley Plateau, Australian Alps, Gregory Range, Selwyn Mountains, MacDonnell Ranges, Darling Range, Hamersley Range, Owen Stanley Range, Maoke Mountains, Buckland Tableland, Uluru, Bluff Knoll. The terrain colors help locate these features within the surrounding lowlands, plateaus and mountain belts.

The mapped river network includes Kayan, Barito, Purari, Ord, Kapuas, Katherine, Taritatu, Mitchell. Only selected rivers are labeled at this scale; a missing label does not mean that a river is absent.

Greens show lower elevations; tan and brown show higher land, with pale tones toward the highest terrain. Shadows emphasize the slopes. Vertical relief is exaggerated to make landforms easier to read, so the map is not a slope survey. Blue tones distinguish seas from land; the legend is a guide to land elevation, not a chart of water depth.

The relief uses Terrain Tiles, a composite of SRTM, GMTED2010 and ETOPO1 elevation data distributed through the AWS Open Data program. Boundaries, rivers, lakes and feature names come from Natural Earth. These are small-scale educational maps rather than navigation or engineering surveys.

Blank physical map

The blank version keeps the mapped features and removes the place labels. Download it for a geography worksheet or practice identifying the features.

Physical map of Oceania without names
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Features and names

ReferenceName or description
Named physical featureGreat Dividing Range
Named physical featureWestern Plateau
Named physical featureGreat Artesian Basin
Named physical featureNullabor Plain
Named physical featureGreat Sandy Desert
Named physical featureGreat Victoria Desert
Named physical featureMurray–Darling basin
Named physical featureSouthern Alps/Kā Tiritiri o te Moana
Named physical featureNew Guinea Highlands
Named physical featureKimberley Plateau
Named physical featureAustralian Alps
Named physical featureGregory Range
Named physical featureSelwyn Mountains
Named physical featureMacDonnell Ranges
Named physical featureDarling Range
Named physical featureHamersley Range
Named physical featureOwen Stanley Range
Named physical featureMaoke Mountains
Named physical featureBuckland Tableland
Named physical featureUluru
Named physical featureBluff Knoll

Data sources and license

Map design and rendered images: Atlas of Maps, CC BY 4.0. Source databases retain their own licenses; the map license does not replace them.

Also see the political map of Oceania with countries and capitals.

Frequently asked questions

What does a physical map show?

A physical map shows landforms and water: mountains, plateaus, lowlands, rivers, lakes and seas. This map uses elevation colors and hill shading instead of coloring each country separately.

Can I download physical map of oceania without labels?

Yes. The blank relief map retains the terrain, rivers and outlines but removes place names. Both versions are available as PNG and PDF; the PDF uses A4 paper and can be scaled to US Letter.

Use this map

You can download, print and share this map for free, in class, in school projects, in presentations and on websites, as long as you credit the source: Physical map of Oceania · Atlas of Maps (atlasofmaps.com), license CC BY 4.0.

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