Australia & New Zealand Vocabulary

The inland areas of Australia west of the Great Dividing Range

• Outback

• Aborigianal

• Kaphaka

• doninion

flat, bent, wooden weapon of the Australian Aborigines that is thrown to stun prey

• tikanga

• dingo

• boomerang

• geyser

a large, bamboo musical instrument of the Australian aboriginal people

• dingo

• didgeridoo

• tikanga

• kapahaka

a wild dog of Australia

• tikanga

• wallaby

• kanagroo

• dingo

traditional art form of the Maori people that combines music, dance, singing, and facial expressions

• didgeridoo

• action song

• kapahaka

• marsupial

a single standing stone

• monolith

• coral reef

• geyser

• station

The indigenous people of Australia

• marsupial

• aboriginal

• dingo

• tikanga

Maori customs and traditions pased down through generations

• tikanga

• dominion

• didgeridoo

• kiwifruit

a long undersea structure formed by the tiny skeletons of coral, a kind of sea life

• hot spring

• marsupial

• coral reef

• eucalyptus

a spring of water that, from time to time shoots hot water into the air

• drought

• outback

• monolith

• geyser