Oceania Mania Trivia Quiz

Answer: Cape Melville

1711 km north of Brisbane, Cape Melville is situated on the east coast of Australia. It is the home to a national park by the same name. Cape Cretin and Cape Girgir are both on New Guinea, and Cape Siri is located on an island in the Papuan Louisiade Archipelago.

Answer: Western Australia

The Eighty Mile Beach is on the Australian west coast. It lies between two towns - Port Hedland and Broome. The beach is famous for fishing and shell collecting. There is a 'Ninety Mile Beach' in Victoria and a 'Seventyfive Mile Beach' in Queensland.

Answer: Solomon Islands

The flag of the Solomon Islands consists of two triangles - one blue and one green - and a diagonal yellow stripe.

Answer: Majuro

The islands owe their name to Captain John Marshall, who visited the islands in 1788. Most Marshallese are protestant christian, and English is an official language, although Marshallese is used by the government.
Palikir is the capital of the Federated States of Micronesia, Koror is the capital of Palau and Suva is the capital of Fiji.

Answer: False

Christchurch is the largest city on New Zealand's South Island. The largest city in New Zealand is Auckland, and the capital city Wellington, are both on North Island.

Answer: South Island

Tasman Bay is located at the north end of New Zealand's South Island. It is not situated on the shores of Tasmania, as the name might suggest. Both Tasmania and the Tasman Bay are named after the Tasman Sea which is in turn named after the explorer Abel Tasman.

Answer: Mt. Wilhelm

Mt. Wilhelm (4509m) is situated in the Central Range of New Guinea. Nearby is Mt. Hagen, not in fact a mountain but the third largest city in Papua New Guinea. On the north coast of the island is the city of Wewak, and to the west, across the border in the Indonesian section of New Guinea is Puncak Jaya (5030m), which is in fact a mountain.

Answer: Health, Peace and Prosperity

Whilst the motto is in Gilbertese, a language spoken in many Oceanic countries, the official language of Kiribati is actually English.

Answer: Tutuila

Tutuila is the largest island of American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the USA, and is the island on which the capital city, Pago Pago, is situated. The other three choices are part of the Society Archipelago, part of French Polynesia, which is an 'overseas collectivity' of France.

Answer: Northern Territory

Kakadu National Park is located 171km east of Darwin.
From Wikipedia:

"The name 'Kakadu' comes from an Aboriginal floodplain language called Kakadu or Gaagudju, which was one of the languages spoken in the north of the park at the beginning of the twentieth century. Gagudju is no longer regularly spoken but descendants of this language group still live in Kakadu....The attractions include the opportunity to learn about the people, geology, plants and animals which make Kakadu a unique and precious resource, not only for Australians but for all the people in the world."

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