The continent of Australia, sometimes known in technical contexts by the names Sahul (/səˈhuːl/), Australia-New Guinea, Australinea, or Meganesia to distinguish...

climate, varying between grasslands and desert. Australia holds many heat-related records: the continent has the hottest extended region year-round, the...

are grouped together with the continent of Australia to form the geographical region Oceania. In geology, a continent is defined as "one of Earth's major...

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania...

Zealand, New Caledonia, and Australia have concluded that Zealandia fulfills all the requirements to be considered a continent rather than a microcontinent...

-27; 144 The geography of Australia encompasses a wide variety of biogeographic regions being the world's smallest continent, while comprising the territory...

; Chopping, R.; Blewett, R. (2018). The Australian continent: a geophysical synthesis. Canberra: Australian National University Press. ISBN 9781760462475...

cross the Australian continent due to its large area of over 7.6 million square kilometers. However a view of totality from the continent is rare, with...

the Equator. It contains all or parts of five continents (the whole of Antarctica, the whole of Australia, about 90% of South America, about one-third...

The Australian telephone numbering plan governs the allocation of telephone numbers in Australia. It has changed many times, the most recent major reorganisation...

Cook, captain of HMS Endeavour, claimed the eastern portion of the Australian continent for the British Crown in 1770, naming it New South Wales. The British...

all-weather road named the Outback Highway, crossing the continent diagonally from Laverton, Western Australia (north of Kalgoorlie, through the Northern Territory...

the continent. The name Australia has been applied to two continents. Originally, it was applied to the south polar continent, or sixth continent, now...

the Kimberley region in what is now Western Australia about 60,000 years ago, and settled across the continent within 6,000 years. A 2018 study using archaeobotany...

A submerged continent or a sunken continent is a region of continental crust, extensive in size but mainly undersea. The terminology is used by some paleogeologists...

Kosciuszko for the continent of Australia, which depends on whether one includes the Sahul Shelf or only mainland Australia as the continent. This also gives...

35% of the Australian continent receives so little rain, it is practically desert. Collectively known as the Great Australian desert, they are primarily...

prehistory of Australia is the period between the first human habitation of the Australian continent and the colonisation of Australia in 1788, which...

16th century divided the world into four continents: Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. Each of the four continents was seen to represent its quadrant of...

Lemuria (/lɪˈmjʊəriə/), or Limuria, was a continent proposed in 1864 by zoologist Philip Sclater, theorized to have sunk beneath the Indian Ocean, later...

known sites of human occupation in Australia, such as Madjedbebe, are in Arnhem Land in the north of the continent and have been dated to between 50,000...

be Europe's two highest mountains. The Australian continent is defined as comprising the mainland of Australia and proximate islands on the same continental...

entirely oceanic while still being associated with a continent by geology (e.g. Bermuda, the Australian Indian Ocean Territories) or by common geopolitical...

name for the eight highest mountain peaks on each of the seven continents (Australia has two entries). It is an alternative name for the "Seven Summits"...

The Southern Continent may refer to: Antarctica, Southernmost Continent. Australia, see Down Under. South America, southern part of the Americas. Africa...

cross the Australian continent from the Kimberley region in the north-west and continue in a south-easterly direction through Western Australia, the Northern...

refer to the newly discovered continent, which is why it was accorded with the feminine names of the other continents: Asia, Africa, and Europa. Since...

Mainland Australia is the main landmass of the Australian continent, excluding the Aru Islands, New Guinea, Tasmania, and other Australian offshore islands...

would be Europe's highest mountain. The Australian continent is defined as comprising the mainland of Australia and proximate islands on the same continental...

indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law Australia (continent) Indigenous Australians Australian English, the dialect...