Australia and Oceania

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Дата: July 27, 2010, 09:53 AM

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Tuvalu

TUVALU IS ONE OF the world’s smallest sovereign nations and remote countries.

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Дата: July 21, 2010, 12:07 PM

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Tonga

THE KINGDOM OF TONGA is one of the few states in the south Pacific Ocean to have retained its traditional monarchy and much of its traditional culture.

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Дата: July 21, 2010, 11:52 AM

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Tokelau

A COUNTRY LOCATED in the South Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand, Tokelau covers a huge area of ocean but only a tiny area of land.

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Дата: June 24, 2010, 03:04 PM

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Polynesia

POLYNESIA, MEANING “many islands” (Greek), is one of the three main divisions (the others being Micronesia and Melanesia) of Oceania.

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Дата: June 17, 2010, 08:16 AM

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PAPUA NEW GUINEA IS an archipelago that includes the eastern half of the equatorial island of New Guinea, which lies between the Coral Sea and the South Pacific Ocean, east of Indonesia and north of Australia.

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Дата: June 17, 2010, 07:42 AM

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Palau

PALAU (OR BELAU to its natives) is one of the world’s newest nations, finally securing independence (in Free Association status) with the United States in 1994 after nearly two decades of struggle.

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Дата: June 16, 2010, 05:36 AM

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New Zealand

IN THE SOUTH Pacific Ocean, the country of New Zealand lies to the southeast of Australia.

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Дата: June 11, 2010, 08:57 AM

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New Caledonia

NEW CALEDONIA IS A French protectorate located in southwestern Oceania, approximately equidistant from Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji.

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Nauru

NAURU, LOCATED near the equator south of the Marshall Islands in the south Pacific Ocean, is the world’s smallest independent republic.

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Micronesia

MICRONESIA CONSISTS of four Pacific island groups located between the Marianas and Marshall Islands, 1,000 mi (1,600 km) north of Papua New Guinea and some 3,000 mi (4,500 km) west of Hawaii. Although they cover an expanse of ocean larger than Western Europe, the total land mass of the 607 islands in the four groups is approximately that of a mediumsize city.

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Дата: June 5, 2010, 01:42 PM

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Melanesia

BEGINNING WITH THE FRENCH explorer Jules d’Urville Dumont in the 1830s, geographers have grouped the far-flung islands of the Pacific Ocean into three great island worlds: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Melanesia, derived from the Greek words for “black” and “islands,” consists of those islands that extend from New Guinea in the northwest to the Fiji Islands in the southeast.

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Дата: June 5, 2010, 11:21 AM

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Malaysia

MALAYSIA IS LOCATED in the heart of Southeast Asia and is divided into two geographical sections: Peninsular Malaysia and the East Malaysian provinces of Sabah and Sarawak, which are located in northern Borneo, some 403 mi (650 km) across the South China Sea.

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Дата: June 5, 2010, 10:48 AM

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Strait of Malacca

A PLAQUE IN THE gardens of the sultan’s palace in Melaka reads: “Whoever is lord of Malacca has his hand on the throat of Venice.” For centuries this passage of water, 620 mi (1,000 km) long, connecting the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, running generally northwest to southeast, lived up to this reputation as one of the most important trade routes in the world, the meeting place of east and west that influenced the economies of states as far away as Venice, Italy.

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Дата: May 4, 2010, 04:51 PM

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Great Barrier Reef

THE GREAT BARRIER REEF, located on the northeast coast of Australia, is comprised of the world’s largest cluster of coral reefs. It is 1,250 mi (2,012 km) long; running along 10 mi (16 km) of the eastern Australia shore in the north to 100 mi (161 km) in the south. Its length is comparable to that of the entire West Coast of the continental United States.

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Дата: April 29, 2010, 10:01 AM

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French Polynesia

FRENCH POLYNESIA IS a French overseas territory situated in the south central Pacific Ocean. There are five inhabited archipelagos: the Society, Tuamotu, Gambier, Australes, and Marquesas island chains. The islands are volcanic but the Tuamotu chain is made up of low coral atolls of which there are 80.

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Дата: April 22, 2010, 09:05 AM

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Fiji

THE REPUBLIC OF the Fiji Islands, a part of Oceania, is an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-third of the way from New Zealand to Hawaii. The island group consists of 332 islands (110 inhabited) and has a combined area somewhat smaller than New Jersey.

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Дата: April 18, 2010, 12:04 PM

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East Timor

THE ISLAND OF Timor, in the Indonesian archipelagos, is no stranger to struggle. Disputed between the Dutch and Portuguese since the late 1500s, the island was officially split when the eastern portion declared independence from Portugal in 1975, only to be immediately claimed by Indonesia, setting off 25 years of violence and destruction.

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Дата: February 21, 2010, 04:43 PM

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Geography of Australia

THE COMMONWEALTH of Australia is the world’s sixth-largest country and is located on the world’s smallest continent between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean.