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Definition of Australasia

1. Noun. Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific.

Definition of Australasia

1. Proper noun. Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and neighbouring islands ¹

2. Proper noun. all of Oceania ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Australasia

Literary usage of Australasia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States and by John Pinkerton, Samuel Vince, Benjamin Smith Barton (1804)
"Some recent German geographers have considered Australasia and Polynesia ... upon several accounts, to consider Australasia and Polynesia as two great and ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1885)
"Бу Т. D. TIMS. 4. Loam and Savings Companies. By WA DOUGLAS. 5. Irish Emigration. By S. TUKE. 6. The British Empire in North America and in Australasia, ..."

3. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"(LS) For the Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company Limited—(Signed) : W. BULLARD. NUMBER 1901/1. GREAT BRITAIN (The British Government, ..."

4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1900)
"Two events of supreme import and of far-reaching consequence to Australasia distinguish the year 1899. The colonies, at least five out of six, ..."

5. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"(LS) For the Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company Limited—(Signed): W. BULLARD. NUMBER 1901/1. GREAT BRITAIN (The British Government, ..."

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