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Oceania in the Modern Era historical figures
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19 figures
Te Puea Hērangi
Māori leader
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Edmund Barton
First Prime Minister of Australia
Hōne Heke
Māori chief
Eddie Mabo
Land rights activist
Don Bradman
Cricketer
Ernest Rutherford
Physicist and chemist
Kiri Te Kanawa
Opera singer
Peter Fraser
Prime Minister of New Zealand
Michael Joseph Savage
Prime Minister of New Zealand
Āpirana Ngata
Statesman and Māori leader
Whina Cooper
Māori rights leader
John Curtin
Prime Minister of Australia
Robert Menzies
Prime Minister of Australia
Gough Whitlam
Prime Minister of Australia
Julia Gillard
Prime Minister of Australia
Liliuokalani
Queen of Hawaii
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Michael Somare
Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
Kamisese Mara
Prime Minister & President of Fiji
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Malietoa Tanumafili II
Head of State of Samoa
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