Australia & New Zealand & South Pacific

Question 1

Akaroa

port to Christchurch, New Zealand

Answer 1

ack- ah-ROE- ah

Question 2

Melbourne, Australia

Answer 2

MEL- burn

Question 3

Adelaide, Australia

Answer 3

ADD-uh-LIED

Question 4

Auckland, New Zealand

Answer 4

AHk luhnd

Question 5

Brisbane, Australia

Answer 5

BR IH Z - buhn

Question 6

Cairns, Australia

Answer 6

Cans

Question 7

Esperance (Western, Australia) Esperance means Hope

Answer 7

Ess-pranz-eh

Question 8

Exmouth, Australia

Answer 8

Ex-muth

Question 9

Gisborne, New Zealand

Answer 9

gIHz - baw r n

Question 10

Île des Pins , New Caledonia

Answer 10

eye l - day - penz

Question 11

Lautoka, Fiji

Answer 11

La-TOH-ka

Question 12

Napier, New Zealand

Answer 12

nay-pee-er

Question 13

Nouméa, New Caledonia

Answer 13

New-may-ah

Question 14

Port Chalmers (Dunedin), New Zealand

Answer 14

dun-EE-din

Question 15

Suva, Fiji

Answer 15

sOO - vuh

Question 16

Semarang (Java), Indonesia

Answer 16

sum-AH-rahng

Question 17

Pago Pago, Tutuila Island

Capital of the U.S. territory of American Samoa

Answer 17

Pango Pango

Early Christian missionaries to the islands carried printing presses and movable type so the could produce phonetic bibles in the local language.
The language spoken in the islands is pronounced with an “n” following every “a,” they didn’t bring enough n’s. It was just implied: every time you see an “a” treat it as “an.”