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All 25,000 islands that are scattered across the Pacific Ocean make up a combined total land area of less than that of the state of Alaska.

• True

• False

American Marines fought some of the fiercest battles of World War II on some of the islands of the Pacific.

• True

• False

All of the islands of the Pacific became independent following World War II.

• True

• False

Cannibals on the Pacific Islands were only legends told by imaginative sailors, not a reality of Oceania.

• True

• False

The island of New Guinea is divided into two separate countries.

• True

• False

Tropical rainforests cover only a small percentage of Papua New Guinea.

• True

• False

More people live in Papua New Guinea than in all of the other Pacific Islands combined.

• True

• False

The island of Guadalcanal was the site of one of the earliest U.S. offensives of World War II.

• True

• False

Match the following capital city to its country

• Port Moresby

• Vanuatu

• Koror

• Solomon ISlands

• Honiara

• Palau

• Suva

• Fiji

• Port-Vila

• Papua New Guinea

Match the following capital city to its country

• Koror

• Micronesia

• Honiara

• Solomon Islands

• Suva

• Fiji

• Palikir

• French Polynesia

• Papeete

• Palau