Oceania - Geography

Oceania and Australia-all the islands together with Australia in the South Pacific Ocean, which form a distinct part of the world.

Australia is the smallest of the continents of the world including the island of Tasmania, and several smaller islands.

Oceania - history

Some 60 thousand years ago the area began arriving Australia Asian nations, known as the aborigines of the island. They led a nomadic life, the gathering and leaseback hunting, and coastal fisheries. The Portuguese discovered Australia in the sixteenth century, but Australia is not interested in them, as seemed to be uninhabited and hostile to Europeans in terms of natural and climatic conditions. For the second time in Australia in the seventeenth century, discovered the Dutch, but they do not zadomowili on the island. For the third time Australia was discovered in 1768, English navigator and explorer James Cook, who also discovered New Zealand and several other islands in the archipelago, named after him.

Oceania - a description of the Continent

Australia is the smallest part of the world. Lies entirely in the southern hemisphere.

Australia is a compact and low rugged continent. Has only two large bays - Carpentaria (north) and the Great Australian (south).

Australia is the most plain continent of the globe. Average height is 300 m Approx. 87% of Australia lies below 500 m above sea level, while only 0.5% rises above 1,000 m. The highest point of the continent is Mount Kosciuszko - 2228 m above sea level, the lowest point is Lake Eyre - 16 m below

Greater part of Australia, and particularly its interior is the climate zone, hot and dry. Dominated by desert, semidesert, dry prairie grass and shrubby formations. In the northern part of the continent, located in climate zone podrównikowego are evergreen forests, and on the south-eastern and south-western shores of the Mediterranean where the climate is growing eucalyptus and acacia forests.

The largest islands of Oceania: New Guinea, South Island, North Island, New Britain, New Ireland, New Caledonia, Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Bougainville, Guadalcanal, Makira, Espiritu Santo. Oceania is inhabited by about 12 million people, representing 0.2% of the world's population.

Oceania is divided into four parts:

Melanesia - 6.65 million inhabitants. - New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Fiji;

Micronesia - 0.45 million inhabitants. - Mariana, Caroline, Marshall Islands, Gilbert Islands, Nauru, Banaba;

Polynesia - 1.7 million inhabitants. - Hawaii, Line, Phoenix, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Niue, Austral, Society Islands, Tuamotu, Gambier Islands, Marquesas, Pitcairn, Easter Island;

New Zealand - 3.5 million inhabitants

 

Discover, visitors, and learned Ocean through pictures.    Discover, visitors, and learned Ocean through pictures.

Australia New Zealand
   
   
   
   

 

interesting facts Oceania

 

Examples of travel destinations in the countries of Oceania and Australia (more interesting is the section of interest in each country):

                                                       

Sydney opera house from 1973 - the symbol of the city - has the original shape - the roof of the building is to remind the sails of ships which discovered Australia 220 years ago.

                                                       

The indigenous people of Papua New Guinea are Papuans. Also reside nearby, the Melanesian islands. Speak approximately 750 languages, but 95% of them are Christians. Including Wigmeni belong to communities that have preserved a traditional lifestyle.

                                                       

Most sheep per capita falls in New Zealand. Grazing herds is undoubtedly an ordinary sight in this country. 4 million people, there are 40 million sheep.

                                                       

Olgas (or Kata Tjuta) - is a 36 spherical rocky hills in central Australia. Weathered hills, formed of reddish conglomerate, located on a desert plain in the mountains north of Musgrave. Once the stone monoliths (the highest reaching 546 m height) were Aboriginal sacred site.

                                                       

Near the Australian city of Darwin has caught a toad the size of a small dog or a ball footbolowej. Toad on more than 40 inches in diameter and weighs over one kilogram. Was found by Frogwatch activists, sniffer poisonous toads, threatening the Australian environment.

                                                       

Australians walk barefoot through the streets and supermarkets