Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica
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Australia,
Oceania, and
Antarctica
ETHAN LANDER KO
HANNA PACIS
MAURICE ROSAL
RALPH VICENTE
Australia
Australia, officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area
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Capital : Canberra
Largest City: Sydney
Economy: Fourteenth largest economy, highly developed country
Form of Government: Federal Parliamentary Democracy
Money: Australian Dollar
Major Mountain Ranges: Great Dividing Range, Macdonell Ranges
Major Rivers: Murray Darling, Murrumbidgee, Lachlan
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Geography
Australia is often dubbed as the "Island Continent". It has a wide variety of landscapes, with tropical rainforest in the north east, mountain ranges in the south east and desert in the center. Australia is the driest inhabited continent.
Geography
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The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef, located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
The Great Dividing Range, is Australia's most substantial mountain range and the fifth longest land based range in the world.
Climate
CLIMATE
Mostly desert or semi-arid. A total of 18% of Australia's mainland consists of desert, while additional areas are considered to have a desert climate based on low rainfall and high temperature. The northern part of the continent has a tropical climate ; part is tropical rainforests, part grasslands and part desert. Australia's tropical/subtropical location and cold waters off the western coast make most of western Australia a hot desert with aridity.
People:
People
Australia is one of the world's most ethnically diverse nations. Nearly a quarter of people in Australia were born in different countries, They come from UK, Europe and also from China, Vietnam, Middle East.
Australia's warm, sunny climate and abundance of open spaces gives the population the love for outdoors.
Australians, colloquially referred to as "Aussies", are people associated with the country of Australia, usually holding Australian citizenship.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the Indigenous peoples of Australia.
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Oceania
The term Oceania is often used to denote a geographical region which comprises of Australia and the nearby islands or as a synonym for Australasian ecozone or the Pacific ecozone.
Oceania has 14 countries:
Countries
Oceania
Continental
High Island
Low Island
Three Island Groups
- Australia, Zealandia and New Guinea.
- Have mountain ranges.
- These highlands are created as tectonic plates pressed together and pushed land upward.
- also called volcanic islands
- are created as volcanic eruptions build up land over time.
- The island region of Melanesia contains many high islands because it is a major part of the “Ring of Fire,” a string of volcanoes around the boundary of the Pacific Ocean
- also called coral islands.
-They are made of the skeletons and living bodies of small marine animals called corals.
- Sometimes barely reach above sea level (hence the name “low island.” )
-The Micronesia and Polynesia are dominated by low islands.
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- Australia is by far Oceania’s largest country
- Oceania’s largest city is in Australia, which is Sydney.
- It’s tallest point is in New Zealand The highest mountain in Oceania is Aoraki/Mount Cook which is located in New Zealand.
- Common wombat , a marsupial usually inhabiting southern and eastern regions of Australia
- Tasmania , emus, the world's second-largest bird species by height
- Koala, platypus, kookaburra, red kangaroos
- Native vegetation in Oceania includes coachwood ; the grass tree, characterized by its long flowered white spikes; cabbage-tree palm, a fanned palm tree with large shiny green leaves; and waratah, a vibrantly red flower native to Australia.
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Antarctica
Antarctica, the southernmost continent and site of the South Pole, is a virtually uninhabited, ice-covered landmass. This continent is the world’s Southernmost continent. Surrounded by the Southern Ocean, this is fifth largest continent.
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Countries
Antarctica's Climate
Climate
Antarctica is the coldest continent on Earth. The average temperature in the interior throughout the year is about -57°C, with the minimum temperature being -90°C during the winter season
Antarctica
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- is a continent with the largest population of penguins. There are no polar bears and it is also a common inheritance of man.
- first people are British and Norwegian people.
- Tourism companies are required by the Antarctic Treaty to have a permit to visit Antarctica.
- has less than 1000 people
- known for the Lemaire Channel and Paradise Harbor, striking, iceberg-flanked passageways, and Port Lockroy, a former British research station turned museum.
Flora and Fauna
Antarctic
Explorers
RONALD AMUNDSEN
The first man to reach the South Pole in 1911
ROBERT SWAN
The first person to walk to both the South Pole and the North Pole
Ernest Shackleton
an Irish explorer who led 3 British Polar expedition to Antarctic
FLORA AND FAUNA
The Emperor Penguin
The Antarctic Krill
The Antarctic Sea Lion
Petrel Snowy
The Wedell Seal