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Quiz IX. Major English-speaking Countries and Their Capital Cities II. Australia and New Zealand

Gap-fill exercise

Complete each gap with a suitable word, then press "Check" to check your answers.

   Aotearoa      Aussie      Australia      Canberra      cloud      continent      Maori      Ocean      Pacific      South      Under      Wellington   
1. The capital of Australia, which is a large island between the Indian Ocean and the southern Ocean, and is both a country and a , is . A popular informal name for Australia is ‘Down ’ and for an Australian person is ‘’ .
2. The capital of New Zealand, which is a country consisting of two main islands, the North Island and the Island, and several smaller ones, in the Pacific southeast of , is . The people, who first came to New Zealand around the 9th century AD, call the country , which stands for 'the land of the long white ' in English.