Map and location knowledge: world by region
Map: Oceania, the Pacific and the polar regions
Practise 2 PYQsConcepts to cover
- Australian states and cities, Tasmania, Torres Strait, Bass Strait, Coral Sea, Tasman Sea; New Zealand's islands and Cook Strait
- 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
- Time zones of large or dispersed countries: France, Russia, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada; China's single zone
- Where the equator (Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Gabon, Congo, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Indonesia, Kiribati, Maldives) and the tropics cross land and lakes
- Polar locations: Ross and Weddell seas, Antarctic Peninsula, South Pole stations, Svalbard, Greenland, Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya, Arctic Circle countries
Where to study
Exploring Society: India and Beyond, Class VI, chapter 2: Oceans and Continents (2024)
- ch. 2, Oceans and Continents, p. 1-14 (book pages 27-40)
Certificate Physical and Human Geography · Goh Cheng Leong
- ch. 25, The Arctic or Polar Climate
UPSC Detailed (Micro Topic) Syllabus: Geography (Prelims)
- Time Zones
Fundamentals of Human Geography, Class XII, chapter 7: Transport and Communication (Reprint 2026-27)
- ch. 7, The Australian Trans–Continental Railway, p. 7 (book page 60)
Map of the World, UN Geospatial map no. 4651 rev. 1 (October 2022), political
- sheet 1, country names and boundaries, p. 1
Exploring Society: India and Beyond, Class VI, chapter 1: Locating Places on the Earth (2024)
- ch. 1, Understanding Time Zones, p. 20 (book page 20)
- ch. 1, b) Latitudes, p. 14 (book page 14)