SOUTH EAST ASIA

MALAY PENINSULA

• Also called Kra Peninsula
• 700 miles long
• Curves southeast
• It serves as a bridge between mainland and islands
• Stretches south from the mainland

MEKONG RIVER

• Begins in China
• 12th longest river
• Houses very large fish
• the Vietnamese refer to it as Cuu Long, meaning ‘nine dragons’.

OUTBACK

• One third of Australia is desert.
• FACT 6: Over 90% of Australia is dry and flat and cannot support agriculture.
• There are 1,500 species of Australian spiders.
• There are over 100 million sheep in Australia.
• All the water is underground

GREAT BARIER REEF

• Worlds largest coral reef
• 400 kinds of coral

MOUNT RUAPEHU

• It has erupted over 50 times since 1860

FIJI

• The Fiji Islands comprise 333 islands in the South Pacific, with beaches, coral gardens, and rain forests
• The capital suva population is 210,000
• The day Fiji got their independence 10 October 1970 (from the UK)
• Fiji's total land mass is slightly smaller than the state of New Jersey.

GUAM

• The full name isTerritory of Guam
• Discovery Day, 1st Monday in March is a national holiday
• The people of Guam have been U.S. citizens since 1950
• Their Governor is Felix Camacho (2003)
• Capital is Agaña

EASTER ISLAND

• The largest stone statue on Easter Island is actually incomplete
• By 1868 all the moai statues had been toppled over, many left broken or disfigured
• In 2008 a Finnish tourist was caught chipping a piece of ear of one of the moai statues
• the tourist was fined $17,000 and ejected.
• Before the moai were granted protection, many of them were removed from the island by collectors

JAVA

• Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, is located northwest on Java and has about 10 million inhabitants
• Java itself is still a safe place to travel

TASMANIAN DEVIL

• weigh up to 26 pounds
• The devils gained their name from European explorers who heard their loud screeching noise, and saw their ferocious behavior when eating
• Devils live to about 7 to 8 years in the wild
• Devils can eat about 5 to 10 percent of their body weight in a day
• Their name means "Harris's meat lover"