GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES

MEKONG RIVER

• Cambodians heavily rely on the Mekong River for their food supply and livelihood
• 12th longest river in the world
• About 60 million people live in the Mekong River basin
• The Vietnamese people rely on the Mekong River for almost half the water used to irrigate their crops

SHAN PENNSULA

• It served as a religious site for Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism
• The province is located on the eastern edge of the North China Plain
• It is mostly flat in terrain
• The Yellow River passes through Shandong's western areas

GREAT BARRIER REEF

• The world's largest coral reef system
• It has over 2,900 individual reefs
• It also has 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometers
• Thousands of species of marine life live here

GREAT AUSTRALIAN BIGHT

• It is an open bay off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia
• The Great Australian Bight was first encountered by European explorers in 1627
• Bluefin tuna have been a favoured target of fishing in the Bight
• The coast line of the Great Australian Bight is characterised by cliff faces

HAVRE SEAMOUNT

• The last eruption was in 2012
• Pumice was produced by the eruption
• It is one of the kermadec volcanoes
• It was a major undersea volcanic eruption

FIJI

• The estimated population of the country is 849,000
• They speak Fijian
• Majority of the population in Fiji is Christian
• The Fijian dollar is the currency of Fiji

MARSHALL ISLANDS

• Agriculture: Coconuts, tomatoes, melons, taro; pigs
• Industry: Copra, fish, tourism, craft items from shell, wood, and pearls
• Exports: Copra cake, coconut oil, handicrafts, fish
• Tropical islands in the western Pacific, the Marshall Islands form two parallel island groups

SOCIETY ISLANDS

• The group comprises the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands
• two clusters of volcanic and coral islands lying in a 450-mi chain
• The islands are mountainous
• English navigator Samuel Wallis claimed these islands for Great Britain

TRANSANTARCTIC MTS.

• It stretches between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea
• It has a total length of about 3,500 km
• The range was uplifted during the opening of the West Antarctic Rift
• Ice from the East Antarctic ice sheet flows through here

POLAR PLATEAU

• It extends over a diameter of about 1,000 kilometres
• It has an average elevation of about 3,000 metres
• It has extremely long sunless winters
• It was first observed and photographed from the air in 1929