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Australasia: Geographical combination, within Oceania, of Australia and New Zealand. [e]
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Parent topics
- Earth science [r]: The study of the components and processes of the planet Earth. [e]
- Continent [r]: An extended part of the Earth's crust that extends above sea level. [e]
- Oceania [r]: A major geographical region of the planet Earth, mostly in the southern hemisphere, consisting of Australasia (the Australian continent and New Zealand), Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia. [e]
Subtopics
- Australia [r]: Continent in the Southern Hemisphere and the federal parliamentary nation that occupies it. [e]
- New Zealand [r]: Country in the South Pacific; constitutional monarchy and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. [e]
- Africa [r]: Continent stretching over the equator, hosting deserts, tropical jungles and savannah as well as over fifty nations; population about 900,000,000. [e]
- Antarctica [r]: The Earth's southernmost continent, located almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle; covers the South Pole. [e]
- Arctic [r]: The region of the Earth so far north that at least one day of the year the sun is below the horizon [e]
- Asia [r]: The largest continent in both land area (with 30% of Earth's land area) and population (with 4 billion people, or 60% of Earth's population). [e]
- Europe [r]: Sixth largest continent; area 10,000,000 km2; pop. 720,000,000 [e]
- North America [r]: The third largest continent, location of three large nations Canada, the United States, and Mexico. [e]
- South America [r]: The fourth largest of the Earth's continents, one of the pieces that broke up from the former supercontinent Gondwana. [e]