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Who controlled Easter Island?

Chile

The island of ______ ___________ is divided into 2 seperate countries.

New Guinea

Who controlled Cook islands, and Niue?

New Zealand

Whats is the capital of Palau?

Ngerulmud

Whats is the capital of Micronesia?

Palikir

Whats is the capital of French polynesia?

Papeete

More ppl live in _______ ________ ________ than in all other pacific islands

Papua New Guinea

Stories of HMS bounty came from ________ island

Pitcairn

Whats is the capital of Papua New Guinea?

Port Moresby

Whats is the capital of Vanuatu

Port- Vila

The _________ islands are named after a biblical character.

Solomon

Whats is the capital of Fiji?

Suva

Who controlled Guam, Wake island, and the Midway islands?

The U. S.

What is copra?

dried coconut

Framed houses with thatched roofs are _____________.

fales

A __________ part of Papau New Guinea is rainforest

large

Did all pacific islands become independant after world war II?

no

New Caledonia was once used by the french as a ________.

penal colony

All 25000 islands on the pasific make up a combined total land mass _________ then that of Alaska

smaller

________ ___________ is 2600 miles off the coast of Chile.

Easter island

the "crossroads of the pacific" is ________.

Fiji

Who controlled New Caledonia, Wallis, and Furtura?

France

Who controlled Pitcairn?

Great Britin

The largest atoll is __________-.

Kwajelein

_______ was the site of world war II offenses.

Guadalcanal

The largest Mariana island is __________.

Guam

The Sandwhich islands are also the ____________________

Hawaiian islands

Whats is the capital of Solomon Islands?

Honiara

New Guinea is broken up into ________ & ________ ________.

Indonisia, Papau New Guinea

Capt. ________ __________ discovered New Calecdonia

James Cook

The 1st atomic bombs took off from the island of ________.

Tinian

American Marines fought battles of ________ _________ II on some pacific islands

world war


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