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.