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Australasia is a term variably used to describe a region of Oceania – namely Australia, New Zealand, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2759x1404, 50 KB) Summary World map depicting Australasia; differs from maps for Commonwealth of Australia and Australian continent Map includes Australia (including Tasmania and Torres Strait Islands); New Zealand; and Melanesia: New Guinea (including eastern Aru/Maluku Islands and mainland provinces...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2759x1404, 50 KB) Summary World map depicting Australasia; differs from maps for Commonwealth of Australia and Australian continent Map includes Australia (including Tasmania and Torres Strait Islands); New Zealand; and Melanesia: New Guinea (including eastern Aru/Maluku Islands and mainland provinces...
Region can be used to mean either: any more or less well-defined geographical area of a country or continent, defined by geography, culture or history in political geography, an administrative subdivision of a country or of the European Union. ...
World map showing Oceania (geographically) Oceania (sometimes Oceanica) is a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands but usually including Australia—in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. ...
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). This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ...
1756 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...
World map showing the location of Asia. ...
Carving from the ridgepole of a MÄori house, ca 1840 Look up Polynesia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Physical geography
Physiographically, Australasia includes the Australian landmass (including Tasmania), New Zealand, and Melanesia: New Guinea and neighbouring islands north and east of Australia in the Pacific Ocean. The designation is sometimes applied to all the lands and islands of the Pacific Ocean lying between the equator and latitude 47° south. Physical geography or physiogeography is a subfield of geography that focuses on the systematic study of patterns and processes within the hydrosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, and lithosphere. ...
Emblems: {{{Emblems}}} Motto: Ubertas et Fidelitas (Fertility and Faithfulness) Slogan or Nickname: The Apple Isle Other Australian states and territories Capital Hobart Government Const. ...
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The equator is an imaginary circle drawn around a planet (or other astronomical object) at a distance halfway between the poles. ...
Latitude, usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ...
Most of Australasia lies on the southern portion of the Indo-Australian Plate, flanked by the Indian Ocean to the west and the Southern Ocean to the south. Peripheral territories lie on the Eurasian Plate to the northwest, the Philippine Plate to the north, and in the Pacific Ocean – including numerous marginal seas – atop the Pacific Plate to the north and east. The Indo-Australian plate is shown in dull orange on this map. ...
The Eurasian plate, shown in green The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate covering Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the continents Europe and Asia) except that it does not cover the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent, and the area east of the Verkhoyansk Range in East Siberia. ...
The Philippine Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean to the east of the Philippine Islands. ...
A marginal sea is a part of ocean partially enclosed by land such as islands, archipelagos, or peninsulas. ...
The Pacific plate is shown in pale yellow on this map The Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean. ...
Human geography Geopolitically, Australasia is sometimes used as a term for Australia and New Zealand together, in the absence of another word limited to those two countries. There are many organizations whose names are prefixed with "(Royal) Australasian Society for" which are limited to just Australia and New Zealand. Geopolitics is the study which analyses geography, history and social science with reference to international politics. ...
 Australasian Olympic Flag In the past, Australasia has been used as a name for combined Australia/New Zealand sporting teams. Examples include tennis between 1905 and 1913, when Australia and New Zealand combined its best players to compete in the Davis Cup international tournament (and in fact won it in the years 1907, 1908, 1909 and 1911), and at the Olympic Games of 1908 and 1912. Image File history File links Australasian_Olympic_Flag. ...
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A tennis net Tennis is a sport played between either two players (Singles) or two teams of two players (doubles). Players use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponents court. ...
See also: 1904 in sports, other events of 1905, 1906 in sports and the Sports timeline. ...
1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
The great Australians Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall with the Cup in 1953 The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in mens tennis. ...
Poster for the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. ...
The 1908 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IV Olympiad, were held in 1908 in London, England. ...
The Games of the V Olympiad were held in 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden. ...
Anthropologists, although disagreeing on details, generally support theories that call for a Southeastern Asian origin of indigenous island peoples in Australasia and neighbouring subregions. Anthropology (from the Greek word , human or person) consists of the study of humanity (see genus Homo). ...
Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ...
The definition of continental subregions in use by the United Nations. ...
Ecological geography From an ecological perspective, however, the Australasia ecozone is a distinct region with a common evolutionary history and a great many unique flora and fauna. In this context, Australasia is limited to Australia, New Guinea, and neighbouring islands, including the Indonesian islands from Lombok and Sulawesi. Ernst Haeckel coined the term oekologie in 1866. ...
The Australasia Ecozone The Australasian ecozone – is an ecological region that is coincident, but not synonymous (by some definitions), with the geographic region of Australasia. ...
Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants...
Phyla Subregnum Parazoa Porifera (sponges) Subregnum Agnotozoa Placozoa (trichoplax) Orthonectida (orthonectids) Rhombozoa (dicyemids) Subregnum Eumetazoa Radiata (unranked) (radial symmetry) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anemones) Bilateria (unranked) (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Myxozoa (slime animals) Superphylum Deuterostomia (blastopore becomes anus) Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ...
Satellite photograph of Lombok, showing its volcano. ...
Sulawesi (formerly Celebes ) is a large island in Indonesia. ...
The biological dividing line from Asia is the Wallace line: Borneo and Bali lie on the western, Asian side. World map showing the location of Asia. ...
Wallaces hypothetical line between Australasian and Southeast Asian fauna. ...
Borneo (left) and Sulawesi. ...
Bali is an Indonesian island located at , , one of the Lesser Sunda Islands. ...
See also Sundaland is a biogeographical region of Southeast Asia that comprises the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo, and surrounding smaller islands. ...
World map showing Oceania (geographically) Oceania (sometimes Oceanica) is a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands but usually including Australia—in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. ...
A world map showing the continent of Australia This article deals with the continent. ...
Eurasia African-Eurasian aspect of Earth Eurasia is the landmass composed of Europe and Asia. ...
The definition of continental subregions in use by the United Nations. ...
Earth (often referred to as the Earth, Terra, or Planet Earth) is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth largest. ...
Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
For other uses, see Africa (disambiguation). ...
Central Africa is a region of Africa often considered to include: Burundi Central African Republic Chad Democratic Republic of the Congo Rwanda Central Africa, or Middle Africa (as by the United Nations when categorising geographic regions), is a term used to also describe the region of Africa south of the...
Eastern Africa (UN subregion) East African Community Central African Federation (defunct) geographic, including above East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easternmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. ...
Northern Africa (UN subregion) geographic, including above North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent. ...
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Western Africa (UN subregion) Maghreb West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. ...
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World map showing the Americas The Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere or New World consisting of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions. ...
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Map of Central America Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. ...
Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ...
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Northern America is a name for the parts of North America besides Mexico when Mexico is considered as Latin America. ...
South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ...
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World map showing the location of Asia. ...
Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible boundaries for the region Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. ...
East Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms. ...
North Asia is a subregion of Asia. ...
Map of South Asia (see note on Kashmir) South Asia, also Southern Asia, is a southern geopolitical region of the Asian continent comprising territories on and in proximity to the Indian subcontinent. ...
Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ...
The definition of cultural-geographical regions in use by the United Nations. ...
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Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2759x1404, 54 KB)Oceanias place in the world. ...
World map showing Oceania (geographically) Oceania (sometimes Oceanica) is a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands but usually including Australia—in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. ...
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Carving from the ridgepole of a MÄori house, ca 1840 Look up Polynesia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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Location of the polar regions Earths polar regions are the areas of the globe surrounding the poles, north of the Arctic circle, or south of the Antarctic Circle. ...
The red line indicates the 10°C isotherm in July, commonly used to define the Arctic region border Satellite image of the Arctic surface The Arctic is the area around the Earths North Pole, opposite the Antarctican area around the South Pole. ...
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The worlds oceans as seen from the South Pacific Ocean Oceans (from Okeanos in Greek, the ancient Greeks noticing the strong current that flowed off Gibraltar and assuming it was a great river) cover almost three quarters (71%) of the surface of the Earth, and nearly half of the...
View of the Pacific Ocean from Oregon. ...
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest ocean, covering approximately one-fifth of the Earths surface. ...
The Southern Ocean, also known as the South Polar Ocean (and formerly the Antarctic Ocean), is the body of water encircling the continent of Antarctica. ...
The Arctic Ocean is used by both marine mammals and nuclear submarines. ...
References
- Richards, Kel (2006). Australasia. Wordwatch. ABC News Radio. Retrieved on 2006-09-30.
- Australasia Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
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