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Across
  1. 2. - territory of the British Empire with internal self-rule
  2. 4. general - representative of the king or queen in a parliamentary constitutional monarchy
  3. 5. - being a rival; challenging
  4. 8. sheet - large mass of compressed ice covering a land area
  5. 9. - one of Australia's original people
  6. 10. bleaching - process that occurs when coral reefs weaken and lighten in color due to a warming climate
  7. 13. - such as ethnic heritage, that people inherit from their parents
  8. 17. - far from the coast; inland
  9. 19. colony - place where convicted prisoners were sent, far from their homelands
  10. 20. - member of the Pacific Island cultural group known for their long-distance navigation skills
  11. 25. - involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering
  12. 27. - person who lives in a place
  13. 28. - slow-moving body of ice
  14. 30. - a journey made for exploration, research, or war
  15. 31. - low, sandy island that has formed on top of coral reefs that surround a sunken extinct volcano
  16. 32. - poisonous
Down
  1. 1. language - simple language used for interaction between people who speak different languages
  2. 3. - original, Polynesian inhabitants of New Zealand and the Cook Islands
  3. 6. - large floating mass of ice
  4. 7. reef - living formation of rock-like material made up of the skeletons of tiny sea creatures
  5. 10. - according to custom or usual practices
  6. 11. - distributed or occurring in widely spaced areas
  7. 12. - fixed quantity set by limits
  8. 14. - territory controlled by the government of another country
  9. 15. Treaty - international agreement that preserves Antarctica for peaceful an scientific use
  10. 16. layer - layer of the atmosphere that filters out most of the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays
  11. 18. - to obtain fresh supplies
  12. 21. tradition - a community's cultural and historical background, passed down in spoken stories and songs
  13. 22. - enclosed area of land that functions as the center of Maori culture
  14. 23. - parcel of land put aside by the Australian government on which some Aborigines were forced to live
  15. 24. ice - seasonal ice that floats on water
  16. 26. - process by which one group takes on a cultural traits of another
  17. 29. - money that people who live in another country send back to families in their home country