The Pacific Ocean is most renowned for it's many paradise islands, of which it has between twenty and thirty thousand. The Pacific Ocean's thousands of islands are mainly located in south, east Asia and the south Pacific. Most of the islands belong to the six main island groups of Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. These island groups consist of several overseas territories, including the U.K's Pitcairn Islands, The U.S.A's Samoa, State of Hawaii and The Marshall Islands, France's French Polynesia, New Zealand's Stewart and Chatham Islands, Australia's island state of Tasmania and Norfolk, Heard and MacDonald Islands, China's Macau, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Chile's Easter Island and Ecuador's Galapagos islands.