Oceania & Antartica

This sea passage that separates New Zealand's North and South Islands, named after a famous British explorer.

This city in the north Island is the most populous urban area of the country and the fifth largest in the continent.

These are the are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a 350 km (217 mi) long and 48 km (30 mi) wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land.

This is the capital and largest city of the island state of Samoa.

This French polynesian is an island of the Leeward island group and located about 230 kilometres (125 nautical miles) northwest of Papeete, is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier reef.

This gigantic volacano erupted in 2022 in the south Pacific caused the smoke plume to reach 58km into the sky – smashing the record of 35km set by the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. That makes it the first eruption that we know of where the top of the plume rose beyond the stratosphere and into the mesosphere.

This sea surrounds its namesake ice shelf of Antarctica (as of 2013, an area of roughly 500,809 square kilometres (193,363 sq mi)[1] and about 800 kilometres (500 mi) across: about the size of France). Which is the largest ice shelf in the continent. Name the sea.

What is this marginal sea in the Pacific Ocean between Viti Levu island, Fiji to the west and the Lau Islands to the east, surrounded by the islands of the Fijian archipelago.

This is an finger lake in the South Island of New Zealand. It is in the southwest corner of the Otago region, near its boundary with Southland. With a length of 80 kilometres (50 mi), it is New Zealand's longest lake, and, at 291 km2 (112 sq mi), its third largest.

This is the capital and largest city of the French special collectivity of New Caledonia. It is situated on a peninsula in the south of New Caledonia's main island, Grande Terre.