Geography/Physical Features

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Geography/Physical Features

• Southeast Asia, Oceania, Antarctica

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Landforms and Resources

• Includes two Peninsulas ? Indochinese and Malay
  Peninsula.
• Includes more than 20,000 islands most of which
  are in archipelagos.
• The mainland has several mountain ranges

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• Indochinese Peninsula

• Malay Peninsula

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• Mountains on the islands are of volcanic origin.
• Creates fertile soil for farming.
• Part of the Pacific Ring of Fire
• Pacific Oceans ring of volcanoes and
  earthquakes.
• Mainland? Mekong River Valley important.

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Pacific Ring of Fire
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Mekong River
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• Oceania is the region of Pacific Islands.
• Two types of islands include
• High islands ? created by volcanoes
• Low islands ? made from coral reef.

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• New Zealand is mountainous with rivers, fertile
  farmland, and forest.
• Australia is flat and rich in minerals.
• Great Barrier Reef is one of the largest coral
  reefs in the world off of Australia.
• Antarctica is centered around the South Pole and
  has a varied landscape including possible
  resources.

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New Zealand
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Australia
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The Great Barrier Reef
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Antarctica
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Climate and Vegetation

• Tropical wet climate in the coastal parts of SE
  Asia.
• Temperatures are high.
• Elevation affects temperature.

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• SE Asia has the greatest diversities of
  vegetation of any region.
• 1/3 of Australia is desert that the locals call
  The Outback.
• Antarctica is considered a polar desert due to
  the lack of moisture it receives.

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Human-Environment Interaction

• Pacific Islanders developed technology to travel
  the Pacific.
• Handmade charts, the voyaging canoe and the
  outrigger canoe were used.
• European colonizers brought rabbits to Australia
  that grazed crops.

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Voyaging Canoe
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Outrigger canoe
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• Bikini Atoll was the site of U.S. atomic weapons
  tests.
• 1951-1958 U.S. held over 60 explosions that
  vaporized several islands and contaminated the
  entire area with radiation.

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• Islanders became sick or died.
• Bikini islanders remained exiled from their
  homeland.
• No one knows when Bikini Atoll will be suitable
  for human life.