Map of Oceania.Oceania is also a region. It includes the country/continent of Australia, along with New Zealand, and many small island countries and territories in the South Pacific. Australia is the world's smallest continent, with a land area of about 3 million square miles and a population of more than 20 million. 1. Name the deserts shown on the map of Australia, from north to south: -- 2. The west coast of Australia borders which body of water? -- 3. Name the huge undersea coral reef--the world's largest--located along Australia's northeastern coast: -- * 4. What imaginary line based on 180[degrees] longitude marks where each calendar day begins? -- For #5-8, locate and identify the capital at the coordinates given, and name its country: 5. 41[degrees]S, 175[degrees]E: -- * 7.35[degrees]S, 149[degrees]E -- * 6. 9[degrees]S, 147[degrees]E: -- * 8.18[degrees]S, 178[degrees]E: -- * 9. Calculate the distance (to the nearest 100 miles) between Melbourne, Australia, and Port Moresby Port Moresby (môrz`bē), town (1990 pop. 193,242), capital of Papua New Guinea, on New Guinea island and on the Gulf of Papua. Rubber, gold, and copra are exported. Port Moresby was founded by Capt. John Moresby, who landed there in 1873. The British occupied it in 1883., Papua New Guinea:-- 10. Name the country that owns or governs the following islands in the Pacific Ocean: Guam: -- Tahiti: -- Volcano Islands Volcano Islands, Jap. Kazan-retto, island group, c.11 sq mi (30 sq km), W Pacific. The group consists of three islands, of which Iwo Jima is the most important. The highest peak (3,181 ft/970 m) is on Minami-iwo-jima. There are sugarcane plantations and sulfur mines on the Volcano Islands. The inhabitants are Japanese and Koreans. Japanese fishermen and sulfur miners arrived in 1887, and Japan annexed the islands in 1891. Captured by U.S.: -- Where you see an asterisk *, write the name of the country and/or geographical feature on the outline map. Answers 1. Great Sandy Desert, Gibson Desert, Great Victoria Desert 2. Indian Ocean 3. Great Barrier Reef Great Barrier Reef, largest complex of coral reef in the world, c.1,250 mi (2,000 km) long, in the Coral Sea, forming a natural breakwater for the coast of Queensland, NE Australia. Composed of more than 2,800 individual reefs, the Great Barrier Reef is separated from the mainland by a shallow lagoon from 10 to 100 mi (16–161 km) wide. In some places it is more than 400 ft (122 m) thick. 4. International Date Line international date line, imaginary line on the earth's surface, generally following the 180° meridian of longitude, where, by international agreement, travelers change dates. Traveling eastward across the line, one subtracts one calendar day; traveling westward, one adds a day. The date line is necessary to avoid a confusion that would otherwise result. 5. Wellington, New Zealand 6. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea 7. Canberra, Australia 8. Suva Suva (s  `vä), city (1993 est. pop. 80,000), capital of Fiji, on the southeastern coast of Viti Levu island, S Pacific. It is a major shipping and commercial center of the S Pacific producing a variety of manufactures., Fiji 9. 1,900 miles 10. U.S.; France; Japan |
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