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australia
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[ noun ] (government,geography) 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
Synonyms Used in print (Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)It was night on this hemisphere , but the light blazed from the megalopolises of Australia , Japan , China , Southeast_Asia , India , Siberia . Australia , the Philippine_Islands , Japan , and northern China were inhabited by those members of the Haijac_Union that spoke American . Related terms country Australian simpson_desert eyre cape_york carpenteria South_Australia Northern_Territory Canberra great_australian_bight murrumbidgee eastern_highlands Victoria great_victoria_desert australian_alps Western_Australia cape_york_peninsula Murray great_barrier_reef Tasmania eyre_peninsula Australian_state Queensland namoi New_South_Wales norfolk_island nullarbor_plain gibson_desert great_sandy_desert returning_officer plonk boomerang pommy keith_rupert_murdoch billabong mate swag bonzer perisher sundowner tucker-bag Australian sealed yellow_spot_fungus swagger gilgai_soil walkabout |
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[ noun ] (geography) the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean
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