Oceania & Antarctica Vocab

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Across
  1. 9. dry and unertile land that stretches from South Australia to Western Australia
  2. 11. a large peninsula of Antarctica that extends some 1200 miles north towards South America
  3. 13. the island south of Australia
  4. 14. river located in the northern part of New South Wales
  5. 15. the low area just west of the Great Dividing Range
  6. 16. large city in southeastern Austalia
  7. 18. the ocean that surrounds Antartica
  8. 19. largest and deepest ocean
Down
  1. 1. an island country in the southwest pacific, the eastern half of New Guinea, officially the Independent state of Papua New Guinea
  2. 2. capital of New Zealand
  3. 3. Australia's longest flowing year round river
  4. 4. Ross ice shelf world's largest body of floating ice lying the head of the ross sea itself an enormous indentation in the continent of Antartica
  5. 5. a series of plateaus and mountain ranges in eastern Australia
  6. 6. part of the western desert and the ninth largest in the world
  7. 7. the capital of Australia
  8. 8. a 1,250 mile chain of more than 2500 reefs and islands along Australia's northeast coast, containing some 400 species of coral
  9. 10. mountain range that divides Antarctica in half
  10. 12. the location where a key battle was fought during 4-8 May 1942, this major naval battle in the Pacific theater of WW2 between Japanese Navy and the US airforce and Australia.
  11. 17. frozen continent owned by no one and just as much of a mystery of the mariana's tench