2006-11-26 17:51:34 · 10 answers · asked by aamodita s 2 in Travel ➔ Australia ➔ Sydney
It's not. Australia is the name of a country, Australasia is the name of a region in Oceania (the others being Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia) which includes Australia, New Zealand and some other smaller islands.
***to everyone saying that Australia is part of the continent Australasia, note that Australia itself is the continent, not Australasia (check the definition)***
2006-11-26 18:02:06 · answer #1 · answered by meow3710 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Americans call Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands etc. "Australia". The preffered term is Australasia/Oceana, when refferting to the continent!
2006-11-27 14:28:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Australia is the name of the country, Australasia is the name given to the entire region.
2006-11-27 01:56:09 · answer #3 · answered by Ricvee 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Australasia does not refer to the country, it refers to the continent and would included New Zealand and some islands as well as Australia!!
2006-11-27 01:55:14 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Raging Bull is right. Ricvee is half there. The difference between Australasia and Oceania is a little hazy, sometimes a country is considered belonging to both. New Zealanders for example mostly consider themselves as existing in Oceania, probably due to their dislike of Australians!
2006-11-27 02:01:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Australasia is tha name of the continent in which Australia resides.
2006-11-27 02:07:15 · answer #6 · answered by charlie 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
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).
2006-11-27 01:59:00 · answer #7 · answered by KIT J 4 · 7⤊ 2⤋
For the same reason that England is also called Europe.
2006-11-27 02:00:11 · answer #8 · answered by Simon D 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
i did not know that it was also called that thing..........very strange
2006-11-27 01:59:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Are you really that stupid??????
2006-11-27 01:58:44 · answer #10 · answered by 2 good 2 miss 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋