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Oceania

Use Australia and Oceania: A True Book by Mel Friedman to complete this puzzle.
Across
Islands in Oceania with rugged mountains and volcanoes.
Part of Australia, this island to the south is the last land you'll come to before hitting Antarctica.
The highest island mountain in the world. It's in Hawaii.
Large farms in the Australian Outback used for raising cattle and sheep.
The native people of Australia.
Australia is the world's largest ____ producer.
The only mountain range in Australia.
Name for the islands that, along with Australia and New Zealand, make up Oceania.
Australia is known as "the land _____ _____" because it lies entirely in the Southern Hemisphere (below the equator).
The Australian Outback is an area of desert and dry ______.
An area in central Australia made up of 36 dome-shaped rocks.
The population of Australia more than doubled in the 10 years after this was discovered in Australia in 1851.
Native people of New Zealand
The ocean that is home to the islands in Oceania.
Along with Echidnas, these are the only egg-laying mammals in the world.
This Australian animal eats eucalyptus leaves and is not a bear.
Australia produces 95 percent of this precious gemstone.
This bird, native to New Zealand, does not fly and has nostrils at the end of its long, pointy bill.
Down
The largest coral reef chain in the world, located off the northeast coast of Australia.
Mammals such as kangaroos that begin life in their mother's pouches.
The only US state that is part of Oceania.
A nickname for inexperienced surfers in Australia.
More than 850 languages are spoken on this island in Oceania.
Though it is the largest lake in Australia, this salt lake is dry most of the year.
The ocean on the west coast of Australia.
Tropical cyclones with strong winds and heavy rains that are common in Oceania.
This rock, located in central Australia, is one of the largest freestanding rocks in the world, measuring 1.5 miles long and extending 1.5 miles underground.
New Zealand is known as the "land of the long ________ ________."
June, July and August in Oceania.
December, January and February in Oceania.
How Australians say hello to their friends.
Oceania includes Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and 25,000 _________.
The Tasmanian _______ is a meat-eating marsupial that can tear through bone with its teeth.
With a wingspan of nearly a foot, the Queen Alexandra's birdwing, found on Papua New Guinea, is the largest ___________ in the world.
The dry, hot region in central Australia is known as the ______.
New Zealand has more than 40 million ________. They outnumber people on the island.
Islands of eroded volcanoes or coral-reef atolls.