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In what direction is Australia from Asia? In what direction is it from the United States?

Use the scale and measure the distance from Honolulu to Sydney. From Singapore to Melbourne.

What ocean is southwest of Australia? What ocean is east? What sea is off the east coast? What gulf is on the north?

What bight is on the south? (Bight means bay.)

Name the two important rivers of Australia. Where is Melbourne? Sydney? Brisbane? Adelaide?

What island is south of Australia? What group of islands is southeast?

What large island is north of Australia?

Where is Java? Where is Sumatra? What strait lies between them?

What large island is north of Java? What islands are northeast of Borneo?

What island is south of the Philippines? What islands are between New Guinea and the Philippines?

Where are the Ladrone islands?

Guam (gwahm), the largest of these islands, belongs to the United States.

Where are the Fiji islands? They belong to Great Britain.