Geography

Concepts to cover

1. Australian states and cities, Tasmania, Torres Strait, Bass Strait, Coral Sea, Tasman Sea; New Zealand's islands and Cook Strait
2. Pacific island states and groups: Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati (straddles the date line), Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Nauru, Tuvalu, Hawaii, French Polynesia
3. Time zones of large or dispersed countries: France, Russia, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada; China's single zone
4. Where the equator (Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Gabon, Congo, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Indonesia, Kiribati, Maldives) and the tropics cross land and lakes
5. Polar locations: Ross and Weddell seas, Antarctic Peninsula, South Pole stations, Svalbard, Greenland, Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya, Arctic Circle countries