South Pacific
The most common language of the Pacific Islands.
What is English? (Bonus: what is the most common religion there?)
This archipelago country is made up of thousands of islands and at least 300 ethnic groups.
What is Indonesia?
These hunter-gatherers, who first inhabited Australia, used spears, boomerangs, and wild dogs to help them hunt, and were often at war with rival groups.
Who are the Aborigines?
The national bird of New Zealand.
What is the Kiwi
This famous explorer almost made it to the South Pole until his ship was trapped and destroyed by pack ice.
Who was Ernest Shackleton? (Bonus: name his ship) Bonus: Name the sea his ship was trapped in?)
Most likely, the earliest inhabitants of the Pacific Islands migrated from Southeast Asia and this peninsula.
What is the Malay Peninsula?
Ships from Russia, Britain, and the United States first sighted this land for the first time in 1820 within a few days of each other.
What is Antarctica?
Explorers from this country first discovered Australia in 1606.
What is the Netherlands?
The major agricultural industries of in New Zealand center around the raising of this animal.
What are sheep?
Seven nations have territorial claims in Antarctica through this agreement, signed in 1959.
What is the Antarctic Treaty?
Inhabitants from this pacific island region are generally taller and have lighter skin than people from Micronesia and Melanesia.
Who are Polynesians?
Wool is one of this country's top exports.
What is New Zealand?
This British naval officer led an expedition to map and explore the eastern coast of Australia, and claimed the land for Britain.
Who is Lieutenant James Cook? (Bonus: what did he call this part of Australia?)
An Australian wild dog.
What is a dingo?
New Zealand was first inhabited by this group of fierce warrior like people.
What are the Maori's?
This large Malanesian island contains the majority of the Pacific Islands' population.
What is Papua New Guinea?
This small country in southeast Asia is comprised of a single city and is one of the world's busiest ports.
What is Singapore?
For the first few decades of colonization in Australia, the only people settling the country were these.
What were prisoners?
This animal, named for its terrible screams and aggressive eating manners, can only be found on an island south of Australia.
What is the Tasmanian Devil?
This perennial grass is a valuable cash crop for the Pacific Islands, and is processed and used all over the world in many forms as molasses, fertilizer, fuel, yeast, animal feed, bioplastics, ethanol, and more.
What is sugar cane?
Most pacific islanders belong to this profession.
What are subsistence farmers?
One of several island countries in Melanesia, which have become popular tourist destinations.
What are Fiji, Vanuatu, or Solomon Islands?
The existence of "Terra Australia Incognita," Latin for "unknown southern land" had been theorized by this Greek thinker in the 4th century BC.
Who was Aristotle?
Australia has a large number of this type of mammal, whose young are born underdeveloped, and who carry their young in a pouch.
What is the Tasmanian Devil? What are Marsupials? (Bonus: name two australian animals that belong to this group?)
This famous structure is one of the most iconic images of modern Australia.
What is the Sydney Opera House?