Ch. 22: Australia & New Zealand
Oceania
Australia and all of the islands surrounding it
Canberra
Australia's capital city named after the Aboriginal word canburry meaning "meeting place"
Mount Kosciuszko
Australia's highest point-rises 7,310 feet above sea level
Sydney
Australia's largest city and its cultural heart
Lake Eyre
Australia's largest lake located in the northeast corner of South Australia. Lowest point on the continent at fifty-two feet below sea level.
Tasmania
Australia's smallest and least populous state. Known as "the apple isle"
Maori
Brown-skinned people from the island of Polynesia north of New Zealand, were the first known humans to discover the islands.
New Zealand
Known to the native islanders as Aotearoa or "land of the long white cloud."
Simpson Desert
Lies in the Southeast corner of the Northern Territory, sometimes called the Red Center of Australia.
Mount Cook
New Zealand's highest mountain, rising 12,316 feet above sea level.
Auckland
New Zealand's largest city and chief seaport, has nearly 1.4 million people.
Hamersley Range
One of the richest iron ore reserves in the world
Aboriginal Peoples
The earliest known settlers of this region. Migrated from Asia.
Botany Bay
The harbor that became the site of the first English settlement on the continent.
Outback
The sparsely populated areas beyond the coastal cities of Australia
Melbourne
Three-fourths of Victoria's population is located in (blank). It is the state capital and the nation's second-largest city.
Captain James Cook (1728-79)
a famous British explorer who was the first European to map the east coast of Australia.
Great Dividing Range
a rugged complex of low mountains, plateaus, and hills that run parallel to the east coast of Australia.
Platypus
an odd creature with a tail like a beaver, a bill and webbed feet like a duck, streamlined body like an otter, and lays eggs. Lives in lakes and rivers on the east coast of Australia as well as Tasmania.
Kookaburra
loud and noisy bird that lives on the islands of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea
Australia
referred to as "the land down under"
jumbucks
sheep
Perth
the capital of Western Australia
Great Barrier Reef
the largest coral formation in the world
wattles
what early settlers called acacia trees because they wove, or "wattled", the trees together to build frames for their mud homes.
