Across
- 1. a catastrophic ocean wave, usually caused by a submarine earthquake, an underwater or coastal landslide, or a volcanic eruption
- 4. stretch of salt water separated from the sea by a low sandbank or coral reef.
- 6. a person's identity or sense of belonging to one or more states or one or more nations
- 7. a phenomenon in which coral reefs expel the microscopic marine algae called zooxanthellae that live in their tissues when under stress
- 10. a ring-shaped reef, island, or chain of islands formed of coral.
- 11. the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
- 12. a neutral zonal area that lies between two or more bodies of land, usually pertaining to countries.
- 14. a geographical region that is endangered by local conflicts within the states or between countries in the region, as well as the involvement of opposing great powers outside the region.
Down
- 2. inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists; indigenous.
- 3. a hard stony substance secreted by certain marine coelenterates as an external skeleton, typically forming large reefs in warm seas.
- 5. the remote and usually uninhabited inland regions of Australia.
- 8. A large, bowl-shaped volcanic depression.
- 9. a coral reef in the Coral Sea, off the NE coast of Australia, extending for about 2000 km (1250 miles) the largest coral reef in the world.
- 11. the curved stick that returns to its owner after being thrown.
- 13. a member of the indigenous people of New Zealand.