Talk:Australasia
Latest comment: 14 years ago by SatuSuro
Various dictionary definition and other usages for Australasia, supporting various different definitions:-
- A region consisting of Australia and islands of the south west Pacific
- The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary
- Australia, New Zealand, and neighbouring islands of the the South Pacific Ocean
- The Concise Macquarie Dictionary
- Occasionally used to designate Oceania, which includes all the islands of the Pacific Ocean.
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, 1971
- just Australia and New Zealand
- THE HUMAN GENETICS SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA.
- In physical geography, deisignation sometimes applied to all the lands and islands of the Pacific Ocean lying between equator and latitude 47deg south.
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, 1971
- Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand and other nearby islands
- The World Book Encyclopedia 1971
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasia - agrees with this - but somehow Australasian then include Indonesia? SatuSuro 15:42, 5 April 2010 (UTC)