Definition of australias Australias
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What does australias mean?
Part of speech
🔤- australias, noun, plural of australia.
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| australia - 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 | ||
| Commonwealth of Australia | ||
| australia 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 | ||
| british commonwealth, commonwealth of nations an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown | ||
| british empire a former empire consisting of Great Britain and all the territories under its control; reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I; it included the British Isles, British West Indies, Canada, British Guiana; British West Africa, British East Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand; "the sun never sets on the British Empire" | ||
| australian capital, canberra, capital of australia the capital of Australia; located in southeastern Australia | ||
| australian state one of the several states constituting Australia | ||
| queensland a state in northeastern Australia | ||
| new south wales an Australian state in southeastern Australia | ||
| victoria capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia on Vancouver Island | ||
| tasmania an island off the southeastern coast of Australia | ||
| south australia a state in south central Australia | ||
| western australia a state containing the western third of Australia | ||
| northern territory a territory in north central Australia | ||
| norfolk island an island territory of Australia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia; formerly a British penal colony | ||
| nullarbor plain a vast arid plain of southern Australia stretching inland from the Great Australian Bight; has sparse vegetation and no surface water and is almost uninhabited; the site of a major rocket research center | ||
| gibson desert a desert area in western Australia | ||
| great sandy desert a desert region in northwestern Australia to the north of the Gibson Desert | ||
| great victoria desert a desert region in south central Australia to the north of the Nullarbor Plain | ||
| simpson desert a desert region of central Australia | ||
| australian alps a range of mountains in Australia that forms the southern end of the Great Dividing Range | ||
| cape york the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait; the northernmost point of the Australian mainland | ||
| cape york peninsula a peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea | ||
| eyre, lake eyre a shallow salt lake in south central Australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent | ||
| eyre peninsula a peninsula of southern Australia | ||
| great australian bight a wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia; notorious for storms | ||
| great barrier reef the largest coral reef in the world; in the Coral Sea off the northeastern coast of Australia | ||
| eastern highlands, great dividing range a mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia | ||
| carpentaria, gulf of carpentaria a wide shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea in northern Australia | ||
| murray river, murray a southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide | ||
| murrumbidgee, murrumbidgee river a river of southeastern Australia; flows westward into the Murray River | ||
| namoi, namoi river a river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River | ||
| aussie, australian the Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines | ||
| australia - the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean | ||
| eastern hemisphere, orient the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia | ||
| southern hemisphere the hemisphere to the south of the equator | ||
| commonwealth of australia, australia 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 | ||
| tasmania an island off the southeastern coast of Australia | ||
| australian desert, great australian desert general name given to all desert areas in Australia | ||
| australian alps a range of mountains in Australia that forms the southern end of the Great Dividing Range | ||
| cape york the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait; the northernmost point of the Australian mainland | ||
| cape york peninsula a peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea | ||
| darling river, darling an Australian river; tributary of the Murray River | ||
| eyre, lake eyre a shallow salt lake in south central Australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent | ||
| eyre peninsula a peninsula of southern Australia | ||
| great australian bight a wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia; notorious for storms | ||
| great barrier reef the largest coral reef in the world; in the Coral Sea off the northeastern coast of Australia | ||
| eastern highlands, great dividing range a mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia | ||
| moreton bay an arm of the Tasman Sea forming a bay to the east of Brisbane | ||
| murray river, murray a southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide | ||
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australia
A country in Oceania, with capital Canberra. -
australia
Continent that is entirely located on the southern half of the globe, surrounded by the Indian, and Pacific Oceans, and Southern Ocean.
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Australia is a continent in the Southern Hemisphere between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. The country called Australia occupies the whole of this continent. Its official name is the Commonwealth of Australia. Australia is the sixth biggest country in the world. Many people also call Australia the "lucky country."
The continent of Australia and the islands of New Zealand are called Australasia. The islands nearby are Oceania.
Geography.
The continent of Australia, including the island of Tasmania, was separated from the other continents of the world many millions of years ago. Because of this, many animals and plants live in Australia that are not found anywhere else. These include animals like the kangaroo, the koala, the emu, the kookaburra, and the platypus.
People first arrived in Australia more than 50,000 years ago. These native Australians are called the Australian Aborigines. For the history of Australia, see History of Australia.
Most of the Australian colonies, having been settled from Britain, became mostly independent democratic states in the 1850s and all six combined as a federation on 1 January 1901. The first prime minister of Australia was Edmund Barton in 1901. Australia is a member of the United Nations and the Commonwealth of Nations. It is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy with the British monarch as Head of State.
Regions and cities.
Australia has six states, two major mainland territories, and other minor territories. The
Part of speech
🔤- australia, noun, singular of australias / australiae.
