Shipwrecks: Oceania
90 wrecks in the Oceania region, in date order, lost between 1622 and 2025. Wrecks with no recorded date are listed last.
- Tryall 1622sailing ship · Grounding or wreck on rocks · off Australia
- Vergulde Draeck 1656sailing ship · off Australia
- HMS Pandora 1791post ship · Grounding or wreck on rocks · off Australia
- Matilda 1792full-rigged ship · off French Polynesia
- Belinda 1824shipwreck · Grounding or wreck on rocks · off Australia
- Rockingham 1830ship · off Australia
- Duke of York 1837barque · off Australia
- HMS Swallow 1837brig-sloop · Australia
- HMS Buffalo 1840combat stores ship · North Island
- Cataraqui 1845barque · off Tasmania
- Arpenteur 1849shipwreck · Storm or weather · off Australia
- Active 1852shipwreck · Australia
- Dunbar 1857shipwreck · off Australia
- Absalom 1863shipwreck · Australia
- HMS Orpheus 1863corvette · off North Island
- Grafton 1864sailing ship · Grounding or wreck on rocks · New Zealand SubAntarctic islands
- Invercauld 1864ship · Grounding or wreck on rocks · off New Zealand SubAntarctic islands
- Xantho 1872paddle steamer · off Australia
- Centaur 1874ship · off Australia
- Geffrard 1875shipwreck · Australia
- Hydrabad 1878historic site · North Island
- Derry Castle 1887sailing ship · Foundered · off New Zealand SubAntarctic islands
- SS Ellengowan 1888steamship · off Australia
- Adonis 1889ship · Grounding or wreck on rocks · off Australia
- SS Petriana 1903ship · off Australia
- Orizaba 1905steamship · Grounding or wreck on rocks · off Australia
- SS City of Adelaide 1916ship · Storm or weather · off Australia
- SS Ferret 1920steamship · off Australia
- SS Kwinana 1922heritage site · Australia
- HMAS Australia 1924battlecruiser · Scuttled · off Australia
- HMAS Pioneer 1931light cruiser · Scuttled · off Australia
- HMAS Parramatta Shipwreck and Memorials 1934memorial · Australia
- SS Tyalgum 1939steamship · Grounding or wreck on rocks · off Australia
- USS Arizona (BB-39) 1941dreadnought · Hawaii
- Japanese cruiser Tenryū 1942light cruiser · off Papua New Guinea
- Japanese submarine Ro-33 1942submarine · off Papua New Guinea
- SS Iron Crown 1942steamship · off Australia
- USS Peary 1942destroyer · War action · off Australia
- AHS Centaur 1943hospital ship · War action · off Australia
- Japanese destroyer Arashi 1943destroyer · War action · off Solomon Islands
- Japanese destroyer Arashio 1943destroyer · off Papua New Guinea
- Japanese destroyer Asashio 1943destroyer · off Papua New Guinea
- Japanese submarine Ro-34 1943submarine · off Solomon Islands
- SS Iron Knight 1943bulk carrier · War action · off Australia
- Tokai Maru 1943archaeological site · off Guam
- USS Aludra 1943liberty ship · off Solomon Islands
- USS Deimos 1943cargo ship · Scuttled · off Solomon Islands
- Akagi Maru 1944light cruiser · War action · off Federated States of Micronesia
- Japanese destroyer Umikaze 1944destroyer · War action · off Federated States of Micronesia
- Kitsugawa Maru 1944shipwreck · Scuttled · off Guam
- SS Ben Dearg 1956ship · Scuttled · off Australia
- Alkimos 1963steamship · Grounding or wreck on rocks · Australia
- Cherry Venture 1973cargo ship · Grounding or wreck on rocks · off Australia
- RMS Caronia 1974cruise ship · off Guam
- HMNZS Wellington 2005frigate · off North Island
- Shockwave 2009sailing yacht · off Australia
- HMAS Adelaide 2010frigate · Scuttled · off Australia
- MV Rabaul Queen 2012ship · Foundered · off Papua New Guinea
- HMNZS Manawanui 2024survey vessel · off Samoa
- Falls of Clyde (ship) 2025oil tanker · Scuttled · off Hawaii
- Batavia sailing ship · Grounding or wreck on rocks · off Australia
- Booya ship · off Australia
- City of York barque · off Australia
- Darra (clipper) clipper · South Island
- Dundonald merchant vessel · off New Zealand SubAntarctic islands
- Falls of Halladale ship · Grounding or wreck on rocks · off Australia
- HMS J3 submarine · off Australia
- HMS J7 submarine · Australia
- HMS Sirius warship · Grounding or wreck on rocks · Norfolk Island
- HMS Sparrow gunboat · South Island
- HMVS Cerberus breastwork monitor · Scuttled · Australia
- Hive shipwreck shipwreck · Australia
- Lady Elizabeth shipwreck · off Australia
- M24 Japanese Midget Submarine wreck site shipwreck · off Australia
- MV Holmglen shipwreck · off South Island
- MV Lake Illawarra ore carrier · off Tasmania
- MV Rena container ship · Grounding or wreck on rocks · off North Island
- Maitland ship · Storm or weather · Australia
- Nojima Maru ship · War action · off Papua New Guinea
- SMS Cormoran cargo ship · Scuttled · off Guam
- SS Ayrfield collier · Australia
- SS Maheno hospital ship · Storm or weather · Australia
- SS Marloo ship · Australia
- SS Wyola heritage site · Storm or weather · Australia
- USS Amberjack attack submarine · off Papua New Guinea
- USS Arizona Memorial military museum · Hawaii
- USS S-39 submarine · Grounding or wreck on rocks · Papua New Guinea
- Wahine shipwreck · Grounding or wreck on rocks · off North Island
- Zeewijk East Indiaman · off Australia
- Zuytdorp shipwreck · Australia