Transcription: The region of Oceania encompasses a vast area in the Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand. Breathtaking Ayers Rock is sacred to Australia's aborigines who have inhabited the continent for thousands of years. Canberra, Australia's capital, Sydney, its largest city, and Auckland, New Zealand are typical modern bustling population centers. In the wild live unusual animals such as the wombats and Tasmanian devils. The peoples from Oceania are dotted across the enormous blue reaches of the Pacific, inhabiting far-flung islands in the regions of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.