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Page 2: AUSTRALIA The names Oceania or Australasia are sometimes used in place of Australia. Oceania Australasia The term is used today in many languages to

AUSTRALIAThe names Oceania or Australasia are

sometimes used in place of Australia.

The term is used today in many languages to denote a continent comprising Australia and approximate Pacific islands

Still the smallest continent in the whole world

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The islands that are included in Oceania are divided into the sub regions

Australasia

•Australia•New Zealand •Christmas Island•Cocos Island•Coral Sea Island•Norfolk Island

Melanesia

•Fiji•Papua New Guinea•Solomon Islands•Vanuatu

Micronesia

•Federal States of Micronesia•Guam•Kiribati•Nauru•Palau

Polynesia

• Samoa•Tonga •Tuvalu

Page 4: AUSTRALIA The names Oceania or Australasia are sometimes used in place of Australia. Oceania Australasia The term is used today in many languages to

The Land Down Under

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•They give the weirdest name and has the weirdest animals

Animals

•“The first in habitants of Australia”

Aboriginal

•Australian rules football

Football

Page 6: AUSTRALIA The names Oceania or Australasia are sometimes used in place of Australia. Oceania Australasia The term is used today in many languages to

An arc of islands off the northern and eastern coast of Australia is called

Melanesia

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MICRONESIA

CAROLINE ISLANDS

It’s near the PHILIPPINES

North of Melanesia and east of Asia are the many tiny islands making up

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POLYNESIA

POLYNESIAN TRIANGULAR

RIDGEPOLE

Larger than those two regions combined is

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TOURIST SPOTS

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

GREAT BARRIER

REEF

ULURU ROCK

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