5. Quick Write
• What US state is an archipelago?
• What are atolls made of?
6. US Territories in Oceania
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Guam
• America Samoa
• Midway (wildlife refuge)
• Uninhabited Islands
– Wake Island
– Johnston Atoll
– Baker Island
– Howland Island
– Jarvis Island
– Kingman Reef
7. Oceania
• Melanesia
means black
islands
• Micronesia
means small
islands
• Polynesia
means many
islands
8. High Islands and Low Islands
• Volcanoes form high
islands, which generally can
support more people and
have a more fertile soil.
• Low islands are reefs or
atolls, and are relatively
small and infertile.
• Melanesia—mostly high
islands
• Micronesia and Polynesia—
mostly low islands
9. Quick Write
• Name one US territory in the
Pacific
• Name one of the three regions of
Oceania
• Reef and atolls make up which type
of islands?
• Volcanoes make up which type of
islands?
10. Melanesia
• Papua New
Guinea
• Fiji Islands
• Solomon Islands
• Vanuatu
• New Caledonia
16. Quick Write
• What country is on an island which
is part of two continents—Asia and
Australia/Oceania?
• What European country used to
own New Caledonia?
17. Micronesia
• During World War II, the US fought a number
of bloody battles against Japan on these islands
• Northern Mariana Islands (US territory)
• Guam (US territory)
• Palau
• Nauru
• Kiribati
• Marshall Islands
• Federates States of Micronesia
25. Quick Write
• What ocean are these islands
located in?
• In what war did many battles occur
between the US and Japan
• What island has a major naval base?
30. Pitcairn Island
• Mutiny on the Bounty
1795
• 8 English crewmen, 6
Tahitian men, 18 women
(most of them kidnapped)
and a baby settled on the
island to avoid the
British Navy
• Today most of the 67
inhabitants are
descendants of this
group
32. Quick Write
• What European country controls
the large archipelago in Polynesia
• In what war did many battles occur
between the US and Japan
• What island has a major naval base?
33. • What number
is Melanesia?
• Polynesia?
• Micronesia?
Editor's Notes
The world’s smallest island nation. 80% of the island cannot support life due to massive phosphate mining.
As seas begin to rise, climate change refugees are coming out of Kiribati
During the period from June 30, 1946, to August 18, 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, all of which were considered atmospheric. The most powerful of those tests was the "Bravo" shot, a 15 megaton device detonated on March 1, 1954, at Bikini atoll. That test alone was equivalent to 1,000 Hiroshima bombs.
