First Children Encyclopedia

New Zealand and Pacific

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Coconut palms

Forests of coconut palms

grow along the beaches

of the Pacific islands.

Islanders climb these tall

trees to gather the coconuts.

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Auckland

Parliament buildings

(Wellington)

Red snapper

Marshall

Islands

Micronesia

Nauru

Kiribati

French

Polynesia

(France)

Tokelau (NZ)

Tuvalu

Papua New

Guinea

Vanuatu

New

Caledonia

(France)

Pacific islands

About 5 million people live

among the tropical islands

of the central Pacific.

Palau

North Island

Pacific

Ocean

Northern Mariana

Islands (USA)

Guam (USA)

Pacific

islanders fish from

small wooden

canoes.

Sperm

whale

Kiwi fruit

Pohuto geyser

Maori carving

Solomon

Islands

Cook Islands

(NZ)

Fiji

Tonga

Samoa

American

Samoa

(USA)

Wallis &

Futuna

(France)

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