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Best History Destinations in Oceania

16 city guides Β· 3-day history itineraries

3-day city guides centred on historical sites, monuments, old quarters and untold stories.

Oceania
πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Australia

Adelaide

Sixty thousand years of Kaurna presence, an 1841 gaol, the Proclamation gum tree and the surveyor's …

Oceania
πŸ‡ΌπŸ‡Έ Samoa

Apia

Star mounds, German colonial timber, Stevenson's grave on Mount Vaea and the peaceful uprising that …

Oceania
πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ New Zealand

Auckland

From 800-year-old Māori terraces on volcanic cones to Victorian merchant streets, the Treaty House a…

Oceania
πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Australia

Canberra

Rock shelters, ceremonial avenues and 1830s sheep-run homesteads beneath the planned capital…

Oceania
πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ New Zealand

Christchurch

From 13th-century moa-hunter caves and Ngāi Tahu kāinga to Rutherford's stone classrooms, a Victoria…

Oceania
πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Australia

Gold Coast

Volcanic deep time, Jabreen's headland, Cook's 1770 landfall and the timber-getters' villages behind…

Oceania
πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Australia

Melbourne

From Wurundjeri Country and the 1835 Batman treaty to Ned Kelly's gallows, the Eureka flag and the e…

Oceania
πŸ‡«πŸ‡― Fiji

Nadi

Chiefly villages, girmitiya indenture history, WWII airfields and the sugar-era architecture behind …

Oceania
πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Australia

Newcastle

Roman frontier forts, a Norman keep, medieval town walls and the coal-and-steam heritage that built …

Oceania
πŸ‡΅πŸ‡« French Polynesia

Papeete

Stone temples of pre-contact Tahiti, the tomb of the last king, Cook's anchorage and the fort where …

Oceania
πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Australia

Perth

From Wadjemup's Aboriginal prison island and UNESCO-listed convict cells to the goldfields mansions …

Oceania
πŸ‡΅πŸ‡¬ Papua New Guinea

Port Moresby

From 1,200-year-old Motuan pottery sites to Bomana's war graves and the hill where the flag rose in …

Oceania
πŸ‡»πŸ‡Ί Vanuatu

Port Vila

Lapita pottery, the world's only Anglo-French Condominium, cannibal chiefs and a US wartime base of …

Oceania
πŸ‡«πŸ‡― Fiji

Suva

From 3,000-year-old Lapita pottery and war clubs to the 1874 Deed of Cession, coup-era Parliament an…

Oceania
πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Australia

Sydney

65,000 years of Aboriginal history, the 1788 First Fleet, the convict era and Australian nationhood…

Oceania
πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ New Zealand

Wellington

Pā sites and Te Δ€ti Awa landing places, the world's second-largest wooden building, Parliament's deb…