(sometimes known in ‘technical contexts’ by the names…)
“sahul”
“australinea”
“meganesia”
(…to distinguish it from the ‘australian mainland’)
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*AUSTRALIA*
*the country*
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(‘australia’ is a ‘continent’ comprising…)
‘mainland australia’
‘tasmania’
‘new guinea’
‘seram’
(possibly ‘timor’ (?))
(‘neighboring islands’ (?))
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*the smallest of the ‘7 traditional continents’*
(in the ‘english conception’ of ‘continent’)
(the continent lies on a ‘continental shelf’ overlain by ‘shallow seas’ which divide it into several ‘landmasses’…)
the ‘arafura sea’ + ‘torres strait’
(between ‘mainland australia’ + ‘new guinea’)
‘bass strait’
(between ‘mainland australia’ + ‘tasmania’)
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(when ‘sea levels’ were lower during the ‘pleistocene ice age’ (including the ‘last glacial maximum’ about ‘18,000 BCE’), they were connected by ‘dry land’)
(during the past ‘10,000 years’, ‘rising sea levels’ overflowed the ‘lowlands’ and separated the ‘continent’ into today’s low-lying ‘arid’ (- ‘semi-arid’) mainland and the 2 ‘mountainous islands’ of ‘new guinea’ + ‘tasmania’)
(‘australia’s manhattan’)
(“island of many hills”)
(according to the ‘lenapes’)
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(geologically, a ‘continent’ extends to the edge of its ‘continental shelf’, so the now-separate ‘islands’ are considered part of the ‘continent’)
(due to the spread of (‘animals’ / ‘fungi’ / ‘plants’) across the ‘single pleistocene landmass’, the separate lands have a related ‘biota’)
(‘new zealand’ is not part of the continent of ‘australia’, but of the separate (+ ‘submerged’) continent of ‘zealandia’)
(‘new zealand’ + ‘australia’ are both part of the wider regions known as ‘australasia’ + ‘oceania’)
(the term “oceania” is often used to denote the region encompassing the ‘australian continent’ and various islands in the ‘pacific ocean’ that are not included in the ‘7-continent model’)
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