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Oceania and Antarctica

Polynesia

• Hot humid Islands in the Pacific Ocean

This island group lies east of Melanesia and Micronesia.

Melanesia

• Island group that lies north and east of Australia

• Largest country is New Caledonia• Most islands are continental

Micronesia

• Island group that lies north of Melanesia• In World War 2 USA and Japan fought

several battles in the islands of Micronesia

Tahiti

• Largest island in French Polynesia

copra

• Dried coconut meat

Tapa cloth

• Product made from the inner bark of paper mulberry trees

icebergs

• Large chunks of ice that fall off glaciers when they meet the ocean

Antarctic Ocean

• The waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans that border Antarctica

Cape Horn

• The southern tip of South America

Nauru

• Tiny republic that mines phosphates

Antarctica

• Larger in size than the contiguous United States

Huge Ice Cap

• In Antarctica a huge ice cap covers the landforms.

1911

• South Pole discovery

1959 treaty

• 12 countries signed a treaty agreeing to use Antarctica only for scientific research

Mount Erebus

• Located on Ross island Antarctica