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oceania a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago) high islands pacific islands formed by volcanoes low islands islands created by coral reefs made up of the gradual buildup of the skeletons of tiny sea creatures great barrier reef the largest coral reef in the world outback the harsh wilderness region of the central and western plains and plateaus of Australia voyaging canoe a large ship developed by pacific islanders to sail the ocean outrigger canoe a seagoing canoe (as in South Pacific) with an outrigger to prevent it from upsetting atoll an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon bikini atoll The isolated reef, located in the Marshall Islands of the central Pacific, that was the site of U.S. nuclear bomb tests, consequently contaminating the atoll with high levels of radiatoin and driving its inhabitants away. micronesia the islands in the northwestern part of Oceania melanesia the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania polynesia the islands in the eastern part of Oceania subsistence activity an activity in which a family produces only the food clothing and shelter they themselves may need copra the dried meat of the coconut from which oil is extracted taro herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves penal colony a penal institution where prisoners are exiled (often located on an island from which escape is difficult or impossible) aboriginal people People who migrated to Australia from Asia at least 40,000 years ago; the original settlers of the land maori an ethnic minority speaking Maori and living in New Zealand teaty of waltangi NOT FOUND pakeha New Zealander of European descent, non-Maori New Zealander