Oceania Includes Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Antarctica

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Oceania Includes Australia, New Zealand,
Pacific Islands, Antarctica
There are about 20,000 islands in the Pacific
Ocean. These are caused by volcanoes and
constantly changing so hard to count by
geographers.
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FYI-Aussie Slang

• Campfire- bush telly
• Male- mate
• Food- tucker
• Breakfast-brekkie
• Australian rules football- aerial ping pong
• Throw up-technicolor yawn

• New surfer-shark biscuit
• Female-shiela
• Mc Donalds-maccas
• American-Yank
• Australia-Oz
• Englishman- pommy

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Australia is the smallest and flattest continent
on Earth.
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ANTARCTICA 5th largest continent
Centered on the South Pole
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The Outback A great desert region covering about
2/3 of Australia
How would this impact the development of a
country?
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Ancient people of the Pacific adapted to their
environment (HEI)
Special canoes
Charts made with shells
Rely on the stars for navigation
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Rabbits in AustraliaThe British introduced
rabbits to Australia in 1859. By 1900, there
were over one billion rabbits.
Rabbits graze close to the ground. Australia is
mostly desert. What affect would this have on
the countrys development?
The government built fences, brought in foxes,
and infected the rabbits with disease to try to
control. The rabbits became immune to the
disease.
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Australia and New Zealand export many farm
products such as wool, cheese, meat. In New
Zealand, the number of farm animals is 15 times
the number people.
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The original inhabitants of Australia are the
dark skinned aborigines. They migrated to
Australia from Asia about 40,000 years ago.
Initially nomadic skilled hunters, many work on
ranches today. What type of belief system would
these early tribes have?
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• From the late 1800s until the mid 1960s, the
  Aborigines were treated very unfairly. White men
  who working at the cattle stations would see the
  poor Aboriginal women and rape them. This would
  result in there being a half-Aboriginal child.
  These children were taken away from their mothers
  and taken to a missionary camp run by
  missionaries who were mostly good men. There,
  they were taught how to read and write English,
  math and farming skills. The missionaries
  thought that since the Aborigines were not "like
  themselves", they would forget about their
  children. The mothers did not forget their sons
  and daughters, but since the missionary camp was
  far away from any Aboriginal villages, they could
  not walk there, meaning they never saw their
  child again.

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Assimilationoccurs when a minority group gives
up its culture and adopts the majority groups
cultureWould this be an example of cultural
convergence or cultural divergence?
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Ayers Rock The native people consider it a
sacred place. Besides its monumental size, the
detail of its gullies and caves, as well as the
colors that it takes at different times of the
day all add to its interest. In 1985, the native
people regained ownership from the Europeans but
allowed it to remain part of a national park.
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Other interesting stuff in Australia
Australia is home to some peculiar animals. The
Kangaroo has strong hind legs which it uses for
jumping. The mother roo carries the baby Joey
in a pouch.
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Kangaroo is served in restaurants and sold in
supermarkets as sausage links, fillets and
hamburgers or rather kanga burgers.
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The koala has the look of a sleepy Teddy-bear and
smells like cough drops because of all the
eucalyptus that they eat. Be careful not to get
too close though, koalas have very sharp claws.
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The emu is a bird which is similar to an ostrich.
Many are being raised for their feathers and
eggs.
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The worlds longest earthworm makes its home in
Aussie land. The megascolides can be up to 12
FEET long.
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Other unusual animals in Australia
wallaby
Dingo
Echidnas
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Though Australians are British decedents like
many Americans, the culture is unique.
A burger with the lots (everything on it) means
you are not only getting lettuce and tomato, but
also a fried egg, beets, and pineapple.
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Natural scenes in Australia
Blue Hole
Bald Rock
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Burraga Swamp
Antarctic beech Forest
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Gloucester Falls
Wollomombi Falls
Cawdilla Lake
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Gum Tree
Darling River
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