You do realize we're talking about just a few hundred years between the Polynesian arrival, and the European arrival, right? I'm not arguing thousands of years. You have to draw the line somewhere and I don't see how anyone would think a couple hundred years is enough to be considered indigenous.
The definition (Webster) says 'not only native but which, as far as can be determined, has never been introduced or brought from elsewhere.' Seems quite strict and you could trace back 500 years to the region they came from but essentially that entire community exists there alone. FWIW Wikipedia says indigenous are those 'who are the original settlers of a given region' which definitely fits here.
Also, 500 years is still a pretty significant amount of time accounting for many generations. From what I know, the Maori were pretty well established on New Zealand at the time when they first contacted the Europeans. That seems ample proof of indigeneity to me.
12/21, ouch. I am not from anywhere near these countries and completely guessed to get some so I suppose I did decent. Time to learn more about Oceania!
Both spellings are accepted - although traditionally the 'fjord' spelling was used, as that is how it's spelled in Norwegian. Whether it's more appropriate to keep the original spelling of foreign "loan words" or to transliterate them into the language in which they're being used, is a debate for some other forum.
Good quiz. Mostly pretty straight forward geography, so even though I was born and bred directly opposite to New Zealand, I could get them all though I had to guess the cattle farm question.
There is not only 7,000,000 people that live in Papua New Guinea. There is 2,000,000 more (technically 1,935,000 more) as of 2020 (and there is bound to be more than 9,000,000 now as of November 2022.)
Oceania geography quiz??? 2/3 of the questions are about Australia. Out of 14 countries in Oceania only 5 are mentioned. And just one dependant territory...
This quiz should use yellow box, since it is very easy to accidentally guess another answer; 4 countries work as answers, which is not a lot in a continent with only 13 countries.