Chapter 10: Oceania & Australia

The First Fleet that sailed to Australia held more prisoners than freemen

• True

• False

A didgeridoo is a native Australian house

• True

• False

Europeans did not bring diseases to the Pacific Islands

• True

• False

New Guinea is the largest of the Pacific Islands

• True

• False

The outback in Australia has an abundance of wildlife

• True

• False

Spanish explorers such as Mendaña treated those that they met on explorations with kindness

• True

• False

Ptolemy's belief that Southern Hemisphere contained a large land affected exploration

• True

• False

Spanish expedition ended because Spain could no longer fund major explorations

• True

• False

New Holland was claimed for the Dutch East India Company

• True

• False

Match the following

• Claimed Tahiti for Fracne

• Phillip

• Navigator who accompanied Mendaña

• Quirós

• Explorer who named Solomon Islands

• Mendaña

• First governor of Australia

• Bougainville