AUSTRALIA
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
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
The Land Down Under
•They give the weirdest name and has the weirdest animals
Animals
•“The first in habitants of Australia”
Aboriginal
•Australian rules football
Football
An arc of islands off the northern and eastern coast of Australia is called
Melanesia
MICRONESIA
CAROLINE ISLANDS
It’s near the PHILIPPINES
North of Melanesia and east of Asia are the many tiny islands making up
POLYNESIA
POLYNESIAN TRIANGULAR
RIDGEPOLE
Larger than those two regions combined is
TOURIST SPOTS
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
GREAT BARRIER
REEF
ULURU ROCK
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EUNICE LOIS JONSON