Hard Pacific Islands word search
Twenty-eight countries, islands and island groups of the Pacific, from the Kermadecs to the Marquesas, in an eighteen by eighteen grid with words running in all eight directions. For older kids and adults who know their way round the map.
- Aotearoa
- Australia
- Chatham Islands
- Cook Islands
- Fiji
- Guam
- Hawaii
- Kermadec Islands
- Kiribati
- Marquesas
- Marshall Islands
- Micronesia
- Nauru
- New Caledonia
- Niue
- Norfolk Island
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Pitcairn
- Rapa Nui
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Tahiti
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
- Wallis and Futuna
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
Make your own versionPacific neighbours, extra hard
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| L | P | S | T | M | N | N | N | G | L | F | E | M | F | C | L | A | O |
| L | I | H | A | R | A | E | L | I | U | M | A | A | U | I | A | S | L |
| M | T | S | U | M | A | O | S | T | S | I | R | U | T | S | C | E | K |
| O | C | L | N | A | O | L | T | I | U | L | N | G | U | L | W | U | I |
| U | A | V | A | N | A | A | I | E | A | V | A | E | N | A | E | I | S |
| A | I | T | V | N | D | B | E | A | A | O | A | N | A | N | N | N | L |
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| P | I | A | A | G | N | O | T | S | N | B | H | A | F | N | S | O | D |
Find these words
- Aotearoa
- Australia
- Chatham Islands
- Cook Islands
- Fiji
- Guam
- Hawaii
- Kermadec Islands
- Kiribati
- Marquesas
- Marshall Islands
- Micronesia
- Nauru
- New Caledonia
- Niue
- Norfolk Island
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Pitcairn
- Rapa Nui
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Tahiti
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
- Wallis and Futuna
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Pacific neighbours, extra hard
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About this word search
Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, the great ocean of Kiwa, is a Māori name for the Pacific. This board stretches from the Kermadec Islands north-east of New Zealand to the Marquesas in French Polynesia, with the Chatham Islands to the east, Norfolk Island and tiny Pitcairn, where descendants of the Bounty mutineers still live.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen and names run in all eight directions, backwards included. Wallis and Futuna, Marshall Islands and Kermadec Islands are the longest with fifteen letters each, and Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Chatham Islands follow with fourteen. Many names end in ISLANDS, so check the first letters before you circle anything. Fiji, Niue and Guam have only four letters. Look for the Q in Marquesas, the J in Fiji and the K in Kiribati, Tokelau and Kermadec Islands. Every name runs without spaces.
For a geography lesson, give each student a few names to research: the capital, the languages spoken and the distance from Auckland. Afterwards the sheet becomes a quiz, where you read out a clue and the class finds the island.
Ways to use this word search
In the classroom
Print it as a task for early finishers, or to open a lesson on this topic. With the QR code on the sheet, students check their own answers.
At home and on the go
Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the ferry or the bach. A pen is all you need, no screen required.
Play together
Print the sheet twice and race each other. Whoever finds all the words first wins. Or play it online and see who is fastest.
Try it in German too
The same theme also exists in German, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.
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