Iteration Year Dates Location Theme
1st 1972[10] 6 May-20 May Suva, Fiji Fiji "Preserving culture"
2nd 1976[11] 6 March-13 March Rotorua, New Zealand New Zealand "Sharing culture"
3rd 1980[12] 30 June-12 July Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea "Pacific awareness"
4th 1985[13] 29 June-15 July Tahiti, French Polynesia French Polynesia "My Pacific"
5th 1988[14] 14 August-24 August Townsville, Australia Australia "Cultural interchange"
6th 1992[15] 16 October-27 October Rarotonga, Cook Islands Cook Islands "Seafaring heritage"[16]
7th 1996[17] 8 September-23 September Apia, Sāmoa Samoa "Unveiling treasures"
8th 2000[18] 23 October-3 November Nouméa, New Caledonia New Caledonia "Words of past, present, future"[19]
9th 2004[20] 22 July-31 July Koror, Palau Palau "Nurture, Regenerate, Celebrate"[21]
10th 2008[22] 20 July-2 August Pago Pago, American Samoa American Samoa "Threading the Oceania Ula"
11th 2012 1–14 July Honiara, Solomon Islands Solomon Islands "Culture in Harmony with Nature"[23]
12th 2016 TBA Tumon, Guam Guam "TBA"
13th 2020[24] TBA TBA, Hawaii Hawaii "TBA"