Possible Clues:

• Officer backs Aine clutching answer from Pacific Isles
• "Nineteen Eighty-Four" superstate
• Islands forming ring, a nice sort of area
• Continent regularly touches another to the north rather than south
• Winston's home in '1984'
• Where Samoa is
• Orwell superstate
• Some lists of continents include it
• Micronesia's home
• Pacific islands area