A'asia (Australasia)
region that comprises Australia and New Zealand together with New Guinea and islands of the South Pacific which are in the vicinity; Oceania | ||||
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Australasia
This article is about the geographical term. For the Pelican album, see Australasia (album).
Australasia is a term variably used to describe a region of Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. 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).| See more at Wikipedia.org... |