Southeast Asia, Oceania and Antarctica

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Southeast Asia, Oceania and Antarctica
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Archipelagoes

• Set of closely grouped islands

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Oceania

• All the collective Pacific islands (somewhere
  around 20,000) are known as Oceania
• Unknown b/c constantly being created and
  destroyed
• High islandsislands created by volcanoes
• Low islandsislands made up of coral reefs
• Few natural resources and minerals

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Notable Islands of Oceania New Guinea, Fiji
the Solomon Islands
Fiji
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New Guinea
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Solomon Islands
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New Zealand

• North Island
• Fertile farmlands, forests and ports
• South Island
• 300 mile mountain range (Southern Alps)

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Southern Alps of New Zealand
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New Zealand
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Highlights of Australia

• The Great Barrier Reef
• Largest reef
• Unique plant
• Animal life
• Illegal to take from reef

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Australian Unique Animals
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Aboriginal Peoples

• Migrated from Asia
• At European
• colonization 500
• different tribes,
• 200 different lang.
• Hunter/gatherers

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The Aborigines Children

• Stolen Generation
• Forced Assimilation

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European colonization/control

• Late 1700s Great Britain colonizes
• Penal colony navy base
• 1851 Gold rush
• Still part of the British commonwealth 1901

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Nuclear Test SitesMarshall Islands and Bikini
Atoll

• 60 nuclear tests
• Dangerous levels of radiation caused Bikini
  residents to leavereturned in 1978 only to find
  birth defects, cancer, etcUS cleanup began in
  1988still unfit for human life

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Nuclear Testing in the 1950s
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Australian natural resources

• Minerals
• Largest diamond producer
• Gold, copper, zinc etc
• Outback--expensive
• Farm products
• Agricultural/dairy etc
• Ranching

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Australian Outback
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Australian Ranch
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Anartica
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Take Five

• Complete the skillbuilder questions on pg. 706