Australia and Oceania Vocabulary

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Great Barrier Reef

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World's largest coral reef, located northeast of Queensland, Australia

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Aborigines

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Native people of Australia, migrated from Asia to Australia at least 40,000 years ago

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Maori

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Indigenous people of New Zealand who fought a series of wars with the British after they were made a colony

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Outback

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Sparsely-populated, desert region in the interior of Australia

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Land Rights Act of 1976

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Gives Aboriginal people in Australia the right to claim land in the Northern Territory

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Archipelago

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Chain of islands

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Stolen Generation

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Refers to mixed race children taken from Aboriginal people and given to white families to promote assimilation from 1909-1969

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Penal Colony

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Australia was originally colonized by British as a place to send prisoners

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Assimilation

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A process whereby a minority group gives up its culture and adopts a majority group's culture

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Oceania

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Region of the Pacific that includes 20,000 islands - Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, New Zealand & Australia