New Zealand and Pacific
They can’t fly.
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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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