I suspect that Captain Cook and his crew who mapped Oceania were Biharis.
Think about what must have happened. They would have seen vast expanses of the ocean and the crew would have asked the captain, "sahib ee ka hai?"
To which the captain would have replied, "aye budhbak, dikhta nahin hai ka, ee oceaniya hai!"
And that's how the name would have stuck, Oceania!
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