On January 26, 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip guides a fleet of 11 British ships carrying convicts to the colony of New South Wales, effectively founding Australia.
Australia was first colonized because England wanted to relieve prison overcrowding so they sent prisoners to Australia.
Australia and New Zealand were both colonized by the United Kingdom. New Zealand had a much more dispersed colonization, initially started with whaling settlements. The Pacific Islands also came into the global world through colonization and imperialism.
Australian businesses, exporters and communities have expanded their footprint across the Asian region to capitalise on the demand for Australian goods and services. In 2017–18, trade with Asia represented about two-thirds (A$526 billion) of Australia's two-way trade in goods and services (A$799 billion).
What effect did colonization have on Australia's indigenous population? The indigenous people or Aborigines of Australia were pushed aside or killed when colonization took effect.
Australia's Most Famous Geographical Features
- Great Barrier Reef. No list of Australia's wonders can be complete without mentioning the Great Barrier Reef.
- Fraser Island.
- Bungle Bungle Range.
- Blue Mountains.
- Kakadu National Park.
- MacKenzie Falls.
- The Twelve Apostles.
- Shark Bay.
Which statement BEST describes the immigration policies of Australia and New Zealand for most of the twentieth century? Immigration into Australia and New Zealand were restricted to groups traditionally considered "white". Which statement is TRUE of sea navigation in Oceania?
Flag of New Zealand
| Design | A Blue Ensign with the Southern Cross of four red five-pointed stars centred within four white five-pointed stars making eight stars in total with the colours dualing each other on the outer half of the flag. |
| Designed by | Albert Hastings Markham |
| Variant flag of New Zealand |
Australia has occasionally been subject to ozone holes in the atmosphere. How has the location of Australia influenced its environment? Australia's distance and isolation have contributed to the development of unique. animals and plants.
New Zealand is not part of the continent of Australia, but of the separate, submerged continent of Zealandia. New Zealand and Australia are both part of the Oceanian sub-region known as Australasia, with New Guinea being in Melanesia.
Australia is approximately 3860 kilometres long from its most northerly point to its most southerly point in Tasmania, and is almost 4000 kilometres wide, from east to west.
Continental Extremities.
| EXTREMITY | North |
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| FEATURE | Cape York (Cape York Peninsula, Queensland) |
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| LATITUDE | 10° 41' 21" S |
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| LONGITUDE | 142° 31' 50" E |
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How did Pacific Island diets change after colonization? After European colonization, the Pacific Islands experienced an increase in the number of domesticated animals like sheep, cattle, and rabbits. Modern Western foods such as canned goods and soft drinks also appeared on many islands.
How do ocean winds affect the temperatures in New Zealand? They warm the land in winter and cool it in the summer. limestone skeletons of tiny sea animals.
b) Australia's rocks are much older than those of New Zealand. c) Australia's highest mountains are the Great Dividing Range, while New Zealand has a spine of much higher mountains called the Southern Alps. e) New Zealand has a highland interior, while Australia's interior has mainly low relief.
People tended to settle in the areas with the mildest climates, and this is where most of the cities then developed. What is the primary reason the Australian population is clustered around its major cities? They joined forces instead of working as many separate groups.
Queen Elizabeth II is the country's monarch and is represented by the governor-general. In addition, New Zealand is organised into 11 regional councils and 67 territorial authorities for local government purposes.
New Zealand.
| New Zealand Aotearoa (MÄori) |
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| Largest city | Auckland |
| Official languages | English MÄori NZ Sign Language |
There were a number of reasons for Western Australia's leaders to be uncertain about Federation. The discovery of gold in the early 1890s led to rapid growth in the colony's population and wealth. Farming, the timber industry and shipping were also strong.
Australia and New Zealand had quite separate indigenous histories, settled at different times by very different peoples – Australia from Indonesia or New Guinea around 50,000 years ago, New Zealand from islands in the tropical Pacific around 1250–1300 CE.
On 1 July 1841 the islands of New Zealand were separated from the Colony of New South Wales and made a colony in their own right. This ended more than 50 years of confusion over the relationship between the islands and the Australian colony.
Abel Tasman is officially recognised as the first European to 'discover' New Zealand in 1642. His men were the first Europeans to have a confirmed encounter with MÄori. The misunderstanding and fear aroused by two such different worlds coming together soon led to violence.
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the
mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country.
Australia.
| Commonwealth of Australia |
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| National language | English |
Following the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, the islands of New Zealand became a British colony. In 1907 New Zealand achieved the status of Dominion, which meant it was a country of the British Empire and later the Commonwealth, with autonomy in domestic and foreign affairs.
In 1642, Dutch navigator Abel Tasman became the first European to discover the South Pacific island group that later became known as New Zealand. Whalers, missionaries, and traders followed, and in 1840 Britain formally annexed the islands and established New Zealand's first permanent European settlement at Wellington.
New Zealand ('Aotearoa' in Maori) is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean. It has two main islands, North Island and South Island. Its closest neighbour is Australia, more than 1,600 kilometres to the north-west.
Parts of New Zealand are sinking at faster rates than others and rising faster, a scientist says. Analysis of the data shows that parts of New Zealand, like the North Island's east coast, have subsided by as much as 3mm a year for the past 15 years.
Eventually, the wafter-thin continent sank – though not quite to the level of normal oceanic crust – and disappeared under the sea. Despite being thin and submerged, geologists know that Zealandia is a continent because of the kinds of rocks found there.
The indigenous tribes of people living in Australia are referred to as aboriginal, their Trans Tasman counterparts, the indigenous or native population of New Zealand is labeled as Maori.
About 540 million years ago, New Zealand was being formed on the eastern edge of the supercontinent Gondwana. Over millions of years, rivers carried sediments to the sea, and offshore volcanoes deposited ash on the sea floor.
On 19 September 1893 the governor, Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law. As a result of this landmark legislation, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
Zealandia's watery fate was sealed by the motions of two tectonic plates that lay beneath it: the southernmost Pacific Plate and its northern neighbor, the Indo-Australian plate. The slow separation caused Zealandia to sink, and by the late Cretaceous period (some 66 million years ago) much of it was underwater.
New Zealand began as a colony administered from/as part of New South Wales, becoming a separate colony in 1841, and a self-governing colony in 1852. NZ declined to join the federation of Australia in 1901 and instead became, like Australia, a Dominion (and so effectively a nation) in 1907.
Eighty million years ago, the landmass that was to become New Zealand, broke away from Gondwana, splitting away from Australia and Antarctica as the Tasman Sea opened up. This split off an area about ten times the size of present-day New Zealand - a continental fragment called Zealandia.
