The continent of Oceania, sometimes known in technical contexts by the names Sahul (/səˈhuːl/), Australia-New Guinea, Australinea, or Meganesia to distinguish...

are grouped together with the continent of Australia to form the geographical region Oceania. In geology, a continent is defined as "one of Earth's major...

climate, varying between grasslands and desert. Australia holds many heat-related records: the continent has the hottest extended region year-round, the...

Zealand, New Caledonia, and Australia have concluded that Zealandia fulfills all the requirements to be considered a continent rather than a microcontinent...

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous...

; Chopping, R.; Blewett, R. (2018). The Australian continent: a geophysical synthesis. Canberra: Australian National University Press. ISBN 9781760462475...

-27; 144 The geography of Australia encompasses a wide variety of biogeographic regions being the world's smallest continent, while comprising the territory...

Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law Australia (continent) Indigenous Australians Australian English...

northern tip of the Australian landmass. Dutch navigators explored the western and southern coasts in the 17th century and named the continent New Holland. Macassan...

Mainland Australia is the main landmass of the Australian continent, excluding the Aru Islands, New Guinea, Tasmania, and other Australian offshore islands...

the Equator. It contains all or parts of five continents (the whole of Antarctica, the whole of Australia, about 90% of South America, about one-third...

Kimberley region in what is now Western Australia about 60,000 years ago. They migrated across the continent within 6,000 years. A 2018 study using archaeobotany...

Cook, captain of HMS Endeavour, claimed the eastern portion of the Australian continent for the British Crown in 1770, naming it New South Wales. The British...

16th century divided the world into four continents: Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. Each of the four continents was seen to represent its quadrant of...

all-weather road named the Outback Highway, crossing the continent diagonally from Laverton, Western Australia (north of Kalgoorlie, through the Northern Territory...

A submerged continent or a sunken continent is a region of continental crust, extensive in size but mainly undersea. The terminology is used by some paleogeologists...

Kosciuszko for the continent of Australia, which depends on whether one includes the Sahul Shelf or only mainland Australia as the continent. This also gives...

The Australian telephone numbering plan governs the allocation of telephone numbers in Australia. It has changed many times, the most recent major reorganisation...

history of Australia began with the initial human migration to the continent around 80,000 years ago when the ancestors of Aboriginal Australians arrived...

Lemuria (/lɪˈmjʊəriə/), or Limuria, was a continent proposed in 1864 by zoologist Philip Sclater, theorized to have sunk beneath the Indian Ocean, later...

the continent. The name Australia has been applied to two continents. Originally, it was applied to the south polar continent, or sixth continent, now...

and continent of the same name) Mainland Australia (main landmass of the geo-region Oceania, its sub-region Australasia, the continent Australia and the...

35% of the Australian continent receives so little rain, it is practically desert. Collectively known as the Great Australian desert, they are primarily...

entirely oceanic while still being associated with a continent by geology (e.g. Bermuda, the Australian Indian Ocean Territories) or by common geopolitical...

would be Europe's highest mountain. The Australian continent is defined as comprising the mainland of Australia and proximate islands on the same continental...

viewed as a single continent, the Americas or America is the 2nd largest continent right after Asia, and is the 3rd largest continent by population. The...

part of the continental shelf of the Australian continent, lying off the northwest coast of mainland Australia. The name "Sahull" or "Sahoel" appeared...

the first colony on the Australian mainland. In the century that followed, the British established other colonies on the continent, and European explorers...

belong to specific groups, but some span the whole continent in one form or another. An Australian linguist, R. M. W. Dixon, recording Aboriginal myths...

European continent, – which can conversely mean the whole of Europe – and, by some, simply as the Continent. When Eurasia is regarded as a single continent, Europe...