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 )