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Southern Alps

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A mountain chain in New Zealand

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Great dividing range

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A range of low mountains in Australia

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Geyser

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A hot spring that shoots sprays of steam and boiling water into the air

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Outback

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The interior region of Australia

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Uluru

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A spectacular rock outcropping in the Australian outback

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Great Barrier Reef

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A 1,250 mile chain of coral reefs off the coast of Australia

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Marsupial

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An animal with an abdominal pouch to carry its young

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Outcropping

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Bedrock that rises above the soil

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Draft animal

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An animal used to pull a heavy load

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James cook

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A British explorer who claimed to land in Australia

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Aborigine

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An original inhabitant of Australia

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Penal colony

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A settlement that serves as a prison

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Charles Perkins

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An aboriginal rights leader

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Mechanized

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Equipped with machines

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Hunter gatherer

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A person who hunts animals and gathers plants for food

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Constitutional monarchy

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A government in which the powers of the king or queen are limited by a constitution

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Maori

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Polynesian people who were the first inhabitants of New Zealand

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Treaty of Waitangi

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A treaty between the British and the Maori signed in 1840

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Pakeha

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A Maori word that means “white people”

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Hydroelectric power

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Electricity produced by moving water

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Geothermal energy

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Power produced by the internal heat of the earth

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Oceania

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The region of the Pacific Ocean with thousands of islands

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Melanesia

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A subregion of Oceania that includes islands of northeast of Australia and south of the equator

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Micronesia

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A subregion of Oceania that includes islands east of the Philippines and north of the equator

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Polynesia

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A subregion of Oceania that includes islands of the central and southern pacific

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Oceanic island

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An island rising from the deep sea floor on a volcanic foundation

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Coral island

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A type of oceanic island that is a coral reef

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Atoll

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A ring shaped coral reef encircling a central lagoon with no inner island

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Trust territory

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A territory placed under the control of a country by the United Nations

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Pidgin

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A simple form of speech that is a mixture of words from two or more languages

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Transantartic mountains

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Mountains that divide Antarctica into two parts

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Geographic South Pole

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The point where all lines of longitude meet

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Icecap

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A glacier that covers a large area

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Antarctic peninsula

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An S shaped peninsula that is part of the Andes mountain chain

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Ice shelf

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Huge flat sheet of ice extending over the ocean, but attached to the land

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Iceberg

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A large piece of floating ice

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Robert Scott

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A British polar explorer

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Ronald Amundsen

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Norwegian polar explorer who was first to reach the South Pole

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Antarctic treaty

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An agreement signed in 1959 calling for the peaceful use of Antarctica

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Ozone hole

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The seasonal thinning of a protective layer of atmospheric gas high above Antarctica

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