Old towns of Oceania outlines a list of notable old towns in Oceania. Oceania's old towns are relatively young compared to European old towns: the indigenous cultures were not urban, and European colonists arrived in the last few centuries. For instance, Sydney, Australia's oldest city, was only established in 1788.

List

Australia

• 1 Ballarat (VIC) – the centre of Victoria's 19th-century gold rush.
• 2 Beechworth (VIC) – a much smaller 1850s-era gold rush town in the northeast of Victoria.
• 3 Berrima (NSW) – a preserved 1830s Georgian town along the Hume Highway.
• 4 Fremantle (WA)
• 5 Hahndorf (SA) - A German town on the outskirts of Adelaide
• 6 Hobart (TAS) - the state capital of Tasmania was founded in 1804
• 7 Melbourne (VIC)
• 8 Port Arthur (TAS) – Australia's best preserved convict site on Tasmania
• 9 Ross (TAS) - another of Tasmania's historic towns with many of the oldest buildings in Tasmania as well as one of the oldest bridges.
• 10 Sydney (NSW) — Australia's oldest city

New Zealand

• 1 Dunedin (Otago) was a prosperous big city in the gold rush between 1865 and 1900 and several central streets remain from that era
• 2 Lyttelton (Canterbury) is a port established in the 1840s and rebuilt after a fire in 1870.
• 3 Russell (Northland) — The first permanent European settlement in New Zealand with a couple of streets from the 1840s

Norfolk Island

• 1 Kingston (Norfolk Island)

See also

• Oceanian history
• Old towns of Southeast Asia