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A Major area of hills & Mts. In Australia, where most of the country’s freshwater begins, west of it is a ribbon of grassland, then desert.

Great Dividing Range

Makes up most of Australia

Desert

Made up of Coral, it lies off Australia’s North-East Coast.

Great Barrier Reef

some volcanoes don't reach the surface but, coral formed along the rim of the Volcano—how is this island classified?

Coral--atoll

The World’s coldest, driest, and windiest Continent.

Antarctica

The native people of Australia

Aboriginies

The native people of New Zealand

Maori

it has no permanent residents

Antarctica

most countries of Oceania have a ___________ city--a single city that dominates the government, business, & social life of the country.

Primate

How is the population distributed in Australia?

mostly pretty sparse w. a concentration near the coast in Australia.

it is believed the earliest settlers of Australia, and parts of Melanesia, went there during the Ice Age by crossing the …

Land Bridge

A.D.

when seafarers settled most of Polynesia.

when Westerners conquered, colonized, and settled here. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, British, French, Germans, & the U.S.

1500s-1800s

1820

When Antarctica was discovered

The country took over some of these islands, during the late 1930s and early 1940s, making them the scene of many a bloody World War Two battle.

Japan

remoteness and lack of education

barriers to modernization

helping to break down the barriers to modernization

technology

Australian ranches which can be as large as 6,000 square miles

stations

New Zealand’s is good, Australia’ is okay, on some of these islands, this is non-existent.

transportation system

a mixture of European and traditional, as evidenced by Strine

lifestyle

the U.S. moved the residents to conduct a test of an atom bomb, it is still uninhabitable today

Bikini Atoll

signed in 1959 makes Antarctica a "continent for science & peace" no one owns it (can anyone mine there?), many countries have research stations there.

Antarctic Treaty

an agreement that bans oil and gas exploration on Antarctica until 2041.

Madrid Protocol

mammals whose offspring mature in the mothers pouches— such as kangaroos, koalas, wallables.

marsupials

The traditional open sided thatched roof hut used in the South Pacific

Fale