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WorGeo Australia
Australia and Oceania
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aborigines | a member of the original people to inhabit an area especially as contrasted with an invading or colonizing people |
| Maori | a member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand |
| Exploration | the action of traveling in or through an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it |
| Colonization | the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area |
| Penal Colony | settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location |
| Parliamentary Democracy | form of government in which the party with the greatest representation in the parliament forms the government, its leader becoming prime minister or chancellor |
| Prime Minister | the head of an elected government; the principal minister of a sovereign or state |
| Outback | the remote and usually uninhabited inland regions of Australia |
| Great Barrier Reef | world's largest of its kind composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometers |
| Atoll | a ring-shaped reef, island, or chain of islands formed of coral |
| Caldera | a large volcanic crater, especially one formed by a major eruption leading to the collapse of the mouth of the volcano |
| Lagoon | a small freshwater lake near a larger lake or river or ocean |
| Marsupials | a mammal of an order whose members are born incompletely developed and are typically carried and suckled in a pouch on the mother's belly |
| Endemic Species | animal native to a particular area or region or an exclusive characteristic of a thing, place, or concept |
| One Tree Hill | Important memorial place for both Māori and other New Zealanders is a volcanic peak in Auckland, New Zealand where a grove of pine trees was planted but only one survived |
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