14 Oceania Country Outlines Quiz

[A] Solomon Islands | A loose double chain of emerald shards scattered in a gentle northwest arc across the Coral Sea.

[B] Vanuatu | A curved, south-sweeping scythe of volcanic islets, blades glinting between Fiji and New Caledonia.

[C] New Zealand | Two long, tilted vertebrae—North Island’s fishhook and South Island’s jagged backbone—separated by Cook Strait.

[A] Marshall Islands | Two parallel coral necklaces of microscopic atolls strung across the central Pacific like scattered pearls.

[D] Palau | A tiny western cluster of limestone and volcanic specks, shaped like a broken comma at the edge of the Philippine Sea.

[B] Fiji | A V-shaped bouquet of islands whose eastern wing points at Tonga and western stem brushes the Melanesian chain.

[C] Australia | A vast, south-tilted slab of red heartland ringed by a thin green coastal rim and an empty centre like a dried lake.

[B] Papua New Guinea | A towering eastern half of New Guinea island, its northern coast deeply serrated by fjord-like bays and its tail curling toward the Solomons.

[D] Tonga | A north-south arc of volcanic crowns and coral rings, like stepping-stones across the southern Pacific.

[A] Micronesia | A loose constellation of four island groups strewn across the western Pacific, each dot barely larger than its reef.

[D] Samoa | Two main volcanic commas lying east-northeast, their southern coasts gently scooped by lagoons.

[C] Kiribati | A vast equatorial ribbon of coral dots stretching 5,000 km east-west, so thin it almost disappears on the globe.

[B] Nauru | A single, raised coral speck—barely a pinhead—south of the equator, ringed by a narrow reef.

[D] Tuvalu | A tight cluster of nine coral atolls forming a fragile necklace just south of the equator, each link barely above the waves.