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

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