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Australasia


Aus·tral·a·sia

A0528700 (ô′strə-lā′zhə)1. The islands of the southern Pacific Ocean, including Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea.2. Broadly, all of Oceania.

Australasia

(ˌɒstrəˈleɪzɪə) n1. (Placename) Australia, New Zealand, and neighbouring islands in the S Pacific Ocean2. (Placename) (loosely) the whole of Oceania

Aus•tral•a•sia

(ˌɔ strəˈleɪ ʒə, -ʃə)

n. Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the S Pacific Ocean. Aus`tral•a′sian, adj., n.
Thesaurus
Noun1.Australasia - Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South PacificAustralasia - Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South PacificPacific, Pacific Ocean - the largest ocean in the world
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Australasia


Australasia

(ôstrəlā`zhə, –shə), islands of the South Pacific, including AustraliaAustralia
, smallest continent, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. With the island state of Tasmania to the south, the continent makes up the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary state (2015 est. pop. 23,800,000), 2,967,877 sq mi (7,686,810 sq km).
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, New ZealandNew Zealand
, island country (2015 est. pop. 4,615,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland.
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, New GuineaNew Guinea
, island, c.342,000 sq mi (885,780 sq km), SW Pacific, N of Australia; the world's second largest island after Greenland. Politically it is divided into two sections: the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua in the west and the independent country of Papua New
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, and adjacent islands. The term is sometimes used to include all of Oceania.

Australasia

1. Australia, New Zealand, and neighbouring islands in the S Pacific Ocean 2. (loosely) the whole of Oceania

Australasia


Australasia

The area of southern Oceania consisting of Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and a few other small islands. It is distinguished from other areas of Oceania, namely Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia.

Australasia


  • noun

Words related to Australasia

noun Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific

Related Words

  • Pacific
  • Pacific Ocean
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