Australia & Oceania Flashcards
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Not a Country :
American Samoa
Pago Pago ( Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and New Zealand )
Australia
Canberra ( Oceania, continent between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean )
Baker Island
Not a country: mostly us territories ( but Midway Atoll )
Cook Islands *
Avarua ( Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand )
Coral Sea Islands *
Not a Country: Oceania islands in the Coral Sea, northeast of Australia
Fiji
Suva ( Oceania, island group in the South Pacific Ocean, about 2/3 of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand )
French Polynesia *
Papeete ( Oceania, five archipelagoes in the South Pacific Ocean about halfway between South America and Australia )
French Southern and Antartic Lands
Not A Country : scattered
Guam *
Hagatna ( Oceania, island in the North Pacific Ocean, about 3/4 of the way from Hawaii to the Philippines )
Kiribati
Tarawa ( Oceania, group of 33 coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, straddling the Equator, as well as the International Date Line; the Capital Tarawa is about half way between Hawaii and Australia )
Marshall Islands
Majuro ( Oceania, two archipelagic island chains of 29 atolls, each made up of many small islets, and five single islands in the North Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and Australia )
Federated States of Micronesia
Palikir ( Oceania, island group in the North Pacific Ocean, about 3/4 of the way from Hawaii to Indonesia )
Nauru *
No official capital ( Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands )
New Caledonia *
Noumea ( Oceania, islands in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Australia )
New Zealand
Wellington ( Oceania, islands in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of Australia )
Niue*
Alofi ( Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Tonga )
Norfolk Island *
Kingston ( Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Australia )
Northern Mariana Islands *
Saipan ( Oceania, islands in the North Pacific Ocean, about 3/4 of the way from Hawaii to the Philippines )
Palau
Melekeok ( Oceania, group of islands in the North Pacific Ocean, southeast of the Philippines )
Papua New Guinea
Port Moresby ( Oceania, group of islands including the eastern half of the island New Guinea between Coral Sea and the South Pacific Ocean, east of Indonesia )
Pitcairn Islands
Adamstown ( Oceania, islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about midway between Peru and New Zealand )
Samoa
Apia ( Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and New Zealand )
Solomon Islands
Honiara ( Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Papua New Guinea )
Tokelau *
None ( Oceania, group of 3 atolls in the South Pacific Ocean, about 1/2 of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand )
Tonga
Nuku’alofa ( Oceania, archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, about 2/3 of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand )
Tuvalu
Funafuti ( Oceania island group consisting of nine coral atolls in the South Pacific Ocean, about 1/2 of the way from Hawaii to Australia )
United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges
Scattered
Vanuatu
Port- Vila ( Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about 3/4 of the way from Hawaii to Australia )
Wake Island *
Not a Country ( Oceania, atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, about 2/3 of the way from Hawaii to the Northern Mariana Islands )
Wallis and Futuna
Mata-Utu ( Oceania, islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about 2/3 of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand )
