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| Strait of Gibraltar | Point the continents of Africa and Europe are only 8 miles apart |
| Dark Continent | what Africa was called because they knew little about it |
| Nile | world's longest river |
| Sahara | Africa's largest desert |
| Aswan High Dam | the dam that allows year round irrigation of farmland in the Nile Valley |
| Lake Victoria | Africa's largest lake and the world's largest body of fresh water |
| Suez Canal | 1)Egypt depends on it for much of its national income 2)been closed only twice since 1869 3)separates Asia from Africa |
| Mt. Kilimanjaro | Africa's highest peak |
| Lake Eyre | Australia's largest natural lake |
| land down under | Austalia's nickname |
| Aborigines | the native inhabitants of Australia |
| Australian Gold Rush | the 1851 event that caused the population of Australia to increase by 200% |
| Great Barrier Reef | 1200 mile long reef that lies off Australia's eastern coast |
| Sydney | capital of New South Wales, Australia |
| Murray | Australia's only permanent inland river |
| Mt. Kosciusko | Australia's highest peak |
| Mediterranean Sea | body of water that the Nile River empties into |
| Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott | led the first expeditions to the South Pole |
| David Livingstone | he named Lake Victoria |
| Egypt | the country that possesses the Sinai Peninsula |
| Samuel Adjai Crowther | first black bishop to be ordained by the Church of England |
| North and South Island | New Zealand's two main islands |
| Cairo | largest city in Africa |
| Sudan | largest country in Africa |
| Sydney, Australia | has the biggest suburban area in the world |
| Cook Strait | body of water that separates New Zealand's main islands |
| Liberia | first independent black republic in Africa, that was settled by freed slaves |
| Lake Victoria | Africa's largest freshwater lake |
| Afrikaners | descendants of the Dutch who settled in South Africa |
