Van Dieman's & Pen Chalet's World Oceans - Pacific: Ka Moana Nui

The World Oceans Collection

The World Oceans Collection is a year-long collaboration between Van Dieman’s Ink and Pen Chalet, celebrating the vastness, diversity, and quiet power of the world’s oceans. Each release explores a single ocean or sea through colour, movement, and light, expressed in carefully formulated fountain pen inks.

Designed as a cohesive series, the collection pairs a unified nautical box with distinctive bottle labels that allow each ink to speak for itself. Flowing currents, shifting depths, and reflective shimmer echo the way oceans move and change, from tranquil shallows to immense, unknowable depths.

Every ink is handmade in Tasmania using distilled Tasmanian water, crafted to balance beauty with reliable everyday performance.

Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the heart of this collection. Vast, ancient, and endlessly varied, it holds volcanic fire, coral gardens, deep trenches, and open blue horizons. These inks draw from the Pacific’s extremes, capturing both its calm surface and the powerful forces beneath.

Pacific – Ka Moana Nui

Named from the Hawaiian phrase meaning “the great ocean,” Ka Moana Nui is the soul of the Pacific itself. This ink reflects open water stretching beyond the horizon, where light dances across rolling swells and depth reveals itself in layered blues.

A luminous turquoise base flows with silver-gold shimmer that gathers and disperses like sunlight on moving water. This shimmer is designed to separate into sunny gold and sparkling blue-silver, to simulate the point where the sand meets the sea.

Ka Moana Nui is expansive, calm, and contemplative. A true ocean ink.