Exploration & Disease
This explorer was the first European to discover Papua New Guinea.
Who is Jorge De Meneses?
This indigenous group is famous for their facial tattoos.
Who are the Maori?
This region of Oceania is located north of the equator.
What is Micronesia?
This musical instrument of the Australian aborigines is made from a hollowed-out tree branch.
What is a didgeridoo?
This country is known as the "land of the fuzzy-haired people."
What is Papua New Guinea?
These three diseases were brought to Oceania by Europeans.
What are smallpox, chicken pox, and measles?
These people are the indigenous inhabitants of Australia.
Who are the Aborigines?
Scientists consider this the largest living structure made by organisms.
What is the Great Barrier Coral Reef?
This term refers to the Australian Aboriginal understanding of the world's creation.
What is Dreamtime?
This island nation is home to both Polynesian and Melanesian cultures.
What is Fiji?
This disease brought by Europeans caused many deaths among native people in Oceania.
What is influenza?
This group from Papua New Guinea is known for covering themselves in mud.
Who are the Asaro Mudmen?
These two island nations are believed to be where migrating people from Asia first landed in Oceania.
What are Tonga and Samoa?
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This Polynesian nation is known for its haka war dance.
What is New Zealand?
This country is the largest in Oceania by land area.
What is Australia?
This famous British explorer made three voyages to the Pacific, including Oceania.
Who is James Cook?
These indigenous people of New Guinea are sometimes referred to as "fuzzy-haired people."
Who are the Papuans?
This French Polynesian island was the desired destination of the Bounty mutineers.
What is Tahiti?
This practice of body modification is particularly significant in Maori culture.
What are tattoos?
This U.S. state is considered part of Polynesia.
What is Hawaii?
This captain's ship crew mutinied because they wanted to stay in Tahiti.
Who is William Bligh?
This Polynesian culture calls their creation story "Dreamtime."
Who are the Aborigines?
Name the three main regions of Oceania.
What are Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia?
This type of Polynesian statue found on Easter Island is called a moai.
What are the giant stone heads?
This country is known as Aotearoa in the Maori language, meaning "land of the long white cloud."
What is New Zealand?