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The largest landmass in Oceania.
What is Australia?
This Norwegian man offered a different theory about the Polynesians' origins.
Who is Thor Heyerdahl?
This man led an expedition for the Spanish with two ships and discovered land in Melanesia.
Who is Alvaro de Mendana?
The four subregions of Oceania.
What is Australasia, Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia?
The Europeans called the native Australians this name.
What are Aborigines?
Thinking they found the mystical Ican island, Mendana named this island after this king in the Bible.
What is the Solomon Island?
Tonga kept its independence because of this man.
Who is King Tupou I?
Aboriginal Australians refer to the time of creation as this.
What is dreamtime?
This island is named after this Dutch captain. Name the island.
What is Tasmania?
Micronesia has thousands of this type of island.
What are low islands?
Name the four notable Polynesian groups.
Who is the Rapa Nui, Maoris, Hawaiians, and Tahitians?
This island is named after this Dutch captain. Name the Captain.
Who is Abel Tasman?
Tasmania is located in this subregion of Oceania.
What is Australasia?
Two ways the Australians got their food.
What is hunting and farming?
The three islands the Dutch discovered.
What is Tasmania, Australia, and New Zealand?