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Why is australia also called australasia ? |
Travel Info Why is australia also called australasia ? Travel Tips It's not. Australia is the name of a country, Australasia is the name of a region in Oceania (the others being Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia) which includes Australia, New Zealand and some other smaller islands. ***to everyone saying that Australia is part of the continent Australasia, note that Australia itself is the continent, not Australasia (check the definition)*** Others Australasia does not refer to the country, it refers to the continent and would included New Zealand and some islands as well as Australia!! Australia is the name of the country, Australasia is the name given to the entire region. Are you really that stupid?????? Australasia is a term variably used to describe a region of Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes (1756). He derived it from the Latin for "south of Asia" and differentiated the area from Polynesia (to the east) and the southeast Pacific (Magellanica). It is also distinct from Micronesia (to the northeast). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/australasia... i did not know that it was also called that thing..........very strange |
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