1. A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
   - Commonwealth of Australia, Oz 
2. The smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean
   - Oz

Derived forms: Australias

See also: Australian

Type of: continent, country, land, state

Part of: British Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations, eastern hemisphere, orient, southern hemisphere

Encyclopedia: Australia Australia, prehistory

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