2. • Oceania is the name of the region consisting of island groups
within the central and South Pacific Ocean. It spans over 3.3
million square miles (8.5 million sq km). Some of the countries
included in Oceania are Australia, New Zealand, Tuvalu,
Samoa, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands,
Vanuatu, Fiji, Palau, Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati
and Nauru. Oceania also includes several dependencies and
territories such as American Samoa, Johnston Atoll and French
Polynesia.
3. Land Area
3,490,000 sq mi
(8,490,000 sq km)
Highest Point
Mount Wilhelm, Papua
New Guinea
14,793 ft. Above sea level
(4,509 m)
Lowest Point
Lake Eyre, Australia
-52 ft. Below sea level
(-16 m)
Longest River
Murray-Darling Australia
2,310 mi
(3,718 km)
Largest Lake
Lake Eyre, Australia
3,714 sq mi
(9,690 sq km)
4. Mount Wilhelm
(German: Wilhelmsberg) is the
highest mountain in Papua New
Guinea at 4,509 metres (14,793 ft).
It is part of the Bismarck Range and
the peak is the point where three
provinces
intersect, Simbu, Western
Highlands and Madang. The peak is
also known as Enduwa Kombuglu in
the local Kuman language,
a Papuan language.
Mount Wilhelm has a granite peak
and is made with pure solid rock.
5. Lake Eyre
-officially known as Kati Thanda–
Lake Eyre, is the lowest point
in Australia, at approximately
16 m (52 ft)below sea level, and,
on the rare occasions that it fills,
the largest lake in Australia
and 18th largest in the world.
The temporary, shallow lake is
the depocenter of the vast Lake
Eyre Basin and is found in South
Australia, some 700 km (435 mi)
north of Adelaide. The lake was
named in honour of Edward John
Eyre, who was the first European
to see it, in 1840. The lake's
official name was changed in
December 2012 to combine the
name "Lake Eyre" with the
indigenous name, Kati Thanda.
6. The Murray–
Darling basin is a
large geographical
area in the interior
of southeastern
Australia, whose
name is derived
from its two major
rivers, the Murray
River and the
Darling River.
7. ¬Australia’s Tropical Rainforests cover
approximately 900,000 square hectares
and are internationally recognized as
being one of the most ecologically
fascinating natural areas in the world, as
one of few remaining truly pristine
tropical rainforest places on the planet.
These forests contain an amazing array
and diversity of flora and fauna.
•Queensland
•Tasmania
•New South Wales
•Northern Territory
•Victoria
•Western Australia
8. Grasslands are flat,
open habitats covered
mainly in grass, but
also with other plants,
wildflowers and a
small number of trees
and low shrubs. They
receive less rainfall
than forests and more
than deserts. They
contain many
different kinds of
grass. Grasslands
contain the most
species of plants in
Australia.
9. • Great Victoria Desert
• Great Sandy Desert
• Tanami Desert
• Simpson Deset
• Gibson Desert
• Little Sandy Desert
• Strzelecki Desert
• Sturt Stony Desert
• Tirari Desert
• Pedirka Desert
Desert Spadefoot
(Notaden nichollsi)
The Perentie, a two
meter monitor lizard
The Thorny Devil.
¬70% of the Australian
mainland is classified as
semi-arid, arid or desert;
making it the driest
inhabited continent on
Earth. Only 3% of the
Australian population live
in the desert. Like most
major deserts across the
world the they are found
around a certain latitude
(roughly 30° north/south
of the equator) where the
weather phenomena
create a dry climate.
11. • Uluru, also known as Ayers
Rock and officially gazetted as
Uluru / Ayers Rock, is a large
sandstone rock formation in
the southern part of the
Northern Territory in central
Australia.
12. • The Great Barrier Reef is
the world's largest coral
reef system composed of
over 2,900 individual reefs
and 900 islands stretching
for over 2,300 kilometres
over an area of
approximately 344,400
square kilometers.
13. • Kakadu National Park
is a protected area in
the Northern
Territory of Australia,
171 km southeast of
Darwin. Kakadu
National Park is
located within the
Alligator Rivers
Region of the
Northern Territory of
Australia.
14. • The Twelve
Apostles is a
collection of
limestone stacks
off the shore of
the Port Campbell
National Park, by
the Great Ocean
Road in Victoria,
Australia. Their
proximity to one
another has made
the site a popular
tourist attraction.
15. • Tongariro National
Park is the
oldest national
park in New Zealand,
located in the
central North Island. It
has been acknowledged
by UNESCO as one of the
28 mixed cultural and
natural World Heritage
Sites. Tongariro National
Park was the fourth
national park established
in the world. The
active volcanic mountains
Ruapehu,Ngauruhoe,
and Tongariro are located
in the centre of the park.
16. • The Bay of
Islands is an area
in the Northland
Region of the
North Island of
New Zealand.
Located 60 km
north-west of
Whangarei, it is
about 210 km by
road to Cape
Reinga at the
northern tip of
the country.
17. • Abel Tasman
National Park is a
national park
located at the
north end of the
South Island of
New Zealand. It is
named after Abel
Tasman, who in
1642 became the
first European
explorer to sight
New Zealand.
18. • The Rabaul caldera, or
Rabaul Volcano, is a
large volcano on the
tip of the Gazelle
Peninsula in East New
Britain, Papua New
Guinea, and derives its
name from the town
of Rabaul inside the
caldera.
19. • Owen Stanley
Range is the south-
eastern part of the
central mountain-
chain in Papua New
Guinea. It was seen
in 1849 by Captain
Owen Stanley while
surveying the south
coast of Papua and
named after him
