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Feral dromedaries introduced in the 1800s now number in the hundreds of thousands across the outback.
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Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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Their tail and leg structure prevents reverse movement, which is partly why the kangaroo appears on the coat of arms.
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Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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Wombats produce cube-shaped droppings thanks to uneven intestinal walls, so the pellets do not roll off rocks.
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Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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The ratio has fallen from twenty to one in the 1980s to around five to one today, still comfortably ahead.
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New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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Before humans arrived the only native land mammals were bats, so birds filled almost every ecological role.
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New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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Polynesian navigators reached Aotearoa around 1300 AD, making it one of the last large landmasses humans settled.
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New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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Carved by glaciers rather than a river, Milford is technically a fiord, and it gets over six metres of rain a year.
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Milford Sound, New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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In 2017 the Whanganui River was granted legal personhood, with guardians appointed to speak for it.
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Whanganui, New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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Geothermal activity vents hydrogen sulphide across the town, earning it the nickname Sulphur City.
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Rotorua, New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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The first commercial bungee site opened at the Kawarau Bridge in 1988, inspired by Vanuatu land diving.
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Queenstown, New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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Naghol divers leap from wooden towers with vines tied to their ankles, a harvest ritual centuries older than bungee.
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Pentecost, Vanuatu · Oceania & the Pacific
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Fiji comprises around 330 islands, of which about a third are permanently inhabited.
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Fiji · Oceania & the Pacific
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In 2011 Samoa jumped the international date line for trade reasons, and 30 December simply never happened.
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Samoa · Oceania & the Pacific
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Tonga is the only Pacific nation never formally colonised, retaining its monarchy throughout.
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Tonga · Oceania & the Pacific
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Kiribati's scattered atolls cross both the equator and the date line, giving it an enormous ocean territory.
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Kiribati · Oceania & the Pacific
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Licensing the .tv internet domain has provided a meaningful share of Tuvalu's national revenue.
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Tuvalu · Oceania & the Pacific
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Phosphate mining briefly made Nauru extraordinarily wealthy before the deposits ran out in the 1990s.
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Nauru · Oceania & the Pacific
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Palau restricted reef-toxic sunscreen ingredients in 2020 to protect its coral, one of the first nations to do so.
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Palau · Oceania & the Pacific
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With over 800 living languages, Papua New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse country on Earth.
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Papua New Guinea · Oceania & the Pacific
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Navigators read ocean swells using stick charts, memorising wave patterns rather than carrying the charts to sea.
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Marshall Islands · Oceania & the Pacific
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Wayfinders crossed thousands of kilometres of open Pacific reading stars, swell direction, cloud shapes and bird flight.
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Polynesia · Oceania & the Pacific
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The central peaks are the remains of a volcano slowly subsiding inside its own coral ring.
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Bora Bora, French Polynesia · Oceania & the Pacific
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Volcanic basalt ground down by waves gives many Tahitian beaches their dark colour.
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Tahiti, French Polynesia · Oceania & the Pacific
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A naturally heart-shaped clearing in the mangroves of Voh became famous through aerial photography.
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New Caledonia · Oceania & the Pacific
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