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25 Cards in this Set
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Aborigine
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native Australians
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Aotearoa
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indigenous name of New Zealand
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archipelagos
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small island groups
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Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation Group
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an organization designed to foster economic development in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Basin
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atoll
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combination of narrow sandy islands, barrier coral reefs, and shallow central lagoons
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Closer Economic Relationship Agreement
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signed by Australia and New Zealand; slashed trade barriers between the two countries
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haoles
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light-skinned European and American foreigners
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high islands
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formed by larger active and recently active volcanoes which rise to a considerable elevation and cover a substantial area
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hot spot
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where moving oceanic crust passes over a supply of magma
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kanakas
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Pacific island laborers
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low islands
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formed by large waves periodically break off and pulverize large pieces of coral, which are then deposited on adjacent sections of the reef to form narrow, wave-washed, and sandy islands
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mallee
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tough and scrubby eucalyptus woodland of limited economic value that has often been stripped away by determined farmers
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Maori
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name for New Zealand's native peoples
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Melanesia
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"dark islands" this includes New Guinea, the Solomon islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji
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Micronesia
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located north of Melanesia and west of Polynesia; "small islands"
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microstates
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newly independent Pacific states that have tiny overall land areas that retain special political economic ties to countries such as the US
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Native Title Bill
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passed by Australia, this compensated Aborigines for already ceded lands, gave them the right to gain title to unclaimed lands they still occupied, and legally empowered them in dealings with mining companies in native settled areas
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Oceania
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a sweeping collection of islands that reaches from New Guinea and New Zealand to the US state of Hawaii in the mid-Pacific
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Outback
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Australia's huge and dry interior
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Pidgin English
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a language that have generated shared forms of intercultural communication
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Polynesia
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to the east, the small island groups, of the central South Pacific
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tsunamis
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seismically induced sea waves
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uncontacted peoples
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cultural groups that have yet to be discovered by the Western world
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viticulture
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grape cultivation
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White Australia Policy
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where governmental guidelines promoted European and North American immigration at the expense of other groups
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