Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania 12.1 | Environment and Culture

O | EN: Diversity The world’s largest island Distinct climate zones Varied habitats for wildlife The Great Barrier Reef

D | EN: Human Impact Humans greatly affect their environment They clear land Consume resources Produce waste And leave to a new land Hunter/Gatherer Agriculture/Breeder Consumer Society

T | EN: Choices Every human today is either part of the problem Or part of the solution The Great Barrier Reef’s destruction

O | C: Remote Early human migrations Climate change and rising seas Aborigines in Australia Closer to African than Asian Pacific Islanders Maori in New Zealand Bering Sea Shallow seas

D | C: Western Occupation Europeans discovered Australia and found little use for it Eventually, England made it a penal colony Settlements mainly along East/West coast British conquest of the Maori Assimilation Pacific islands occupied as ports for growing empires American Samoa

T | C: Globalizing Australia and New Zealand entered the 1st World Part of the British Commonwealth Issues with Aborigine population Like US treatment of Native Americans Pacific Island nations reaching out to modernize Climate change issues with islands disappearing