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Oceania historical figures
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20 figures
Te Puea Hērangi
Māori leader
Kate Sheppard
Suffragist
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Edmund Barton
First Prime Minister of Australia
Ned Kelly
Bushranger
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
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Kamehameha I
King of Hawaii
Liliuokalani
Queen of Hawaii
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Michael Somare
Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
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