Pacific Islands word search
Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands and Niue: the Pacific is close to home for many Kiwi families. Twenty islands and nations of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa in a fourteen by fourteen grid.
- Aotearoa
- Australia
- Cook Islands
- Fiji
- Hawaii
- Kiribati
- Micronesia
- Nauru
- New Caledonia
- Niue
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Rapa Nui
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Tahiti
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
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
Name
| T | T | X | T | S | W | E | H | T | M | A | P | F | H |
| N | O | N | S | O | M | I | A | T | T | U | A | W | H |
| E | N | T | O | L | I | X | W | A | O | S | P | O | H |
| W | G | T | T | O | C | F | A | T | K | T | U | C | N |
| C | A | S | P | M | R | N | I | D | E | R | A | R | C |
| A | O | U | C | O | O | K | I | S | L | A | N | D | S |
| L | T | O | V | N | N | I | R | X | A | L | E | A | H |
| E | E | I | A | I | E | R | A | T | U | I | W | C | P |
| D | A | F | N | S | S | I | P | S | A | A | G | O | A |
| O | R | I | U | L | I | B | A | A | N | H | U | G | L |
| N | O | J | A | A | A | A | N | M | I | R | I | O | A |
| I | A | I | T | N | L | T | U | O | U | A | N | T | U |
| A | P | S | U | D | B | I | I | A | E | E | E | A | I |
| S | T | U | N | S | E | A | N | T | U | V | A | L | U |
Find these words
- Aotearoa
- Australia
- Cook Islands
- Fiji
- Hawaii
- Kiribati
- Micronesia
- Nauru
- New Caledonia
- Niue
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Rapa Nui
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Tahiti
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
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Pacific neighbours
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About this word search
The Pacific is close to home for many Kiwi families. Auckland has one of the largest Polynesian populations of any city in the world, and Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Niue and Fiji are part of everyday life here, from church and sport to food and music. People from the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau are New Zealand citizens.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen and the names run across, down and diagonally, never backwards. Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea are the longest with fourteen letters each, so they fill a whole row, column or diagonal. New Caledonia has twelve and Cook Islands eleven. Fiji and Niue are only four letters long, and the J in Fiji is the easiest letter to spot. Hawaii ends in a double I, and Aotearoa and Tokelau are full of vowels, so read carefully. Names with more than one word run together without a space.
Put a map of the Pacific next to the sheet and colour in each island group once you have found it. In a class with Pasifika students, ask who has family in which place and mark those with a star.
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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